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bleomycin
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Etymology
From [Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
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Noun
bleomycin (countable and uncountable, plural bleomycins)
- (pharmacology) Any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 206:
- Bleomycin, which could scar lungs without warning, was an antibiotic derived from a mold.
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