kanamycin
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- 20
- Words With Friends
- 23
- Letters
- 9
Definition of kanamycin
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections and tuberculosis.
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Etymology
From (Streptomyces) kana(myceticus) + -mycin (“antibiotic produced from a Streptomyces strain”). The term kanamyceticus may comes from From Japanese 金 (kana-, “metal, money”) + Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs) + Latin -icus.
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