kanamycin

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
23
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˌkæn.əˈmaɪ.sɪn/

Definition of kanamycin

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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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