bleomycin

English

Etymology

From [Term?] +‎ -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).

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Noun

bleomycin (countable and uncountable, plural bleomycins)

  1. (pharmacology) Any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.
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