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