The story
- Latin · derived fromfūsus
- English todayfusidic
From the generic name Fusidium (from the Latin fūsus, “spindle”) + the English -ic, so named because fusidic acid was originally isolated from a strain of the fungus Fusidium coccineum.
Words from the same roots
Latinfūsus all →
fusefuselagefusariumfusiformfuseefusilfusoid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.