pleuromutilins

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A form of pleuromutilin — Any of a class of antibacterial drugs that inhibit protein synthesis in bacteria by binding to a peptidyltransferase component within a ribosome.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of pleuromutilin
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