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mitomycin
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Etymology
From mito- (“nucleotoxic agent”) + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
Noun
mitomycin (countable and uncountable, plural mitomycins)
- (pharmacology) Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.
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