Actinomycin Definition

ăk-tĭnō-mīsĭn, ăktə-nō-

noun

Any of various red, often toxic, polypeptide antibiotics obtained from soil bacteria.

American Heritage

Any of various antibiotic polypeptides derived from streptomyces soil bacteria: active against certain bacteria and fungi and some neoplasms.

Webster's New World

Any of a class of peptide-containing, often toxic antibiotics that are obtained from soil bacteria.

American Heritage Medicine

(biochemistry, pharmacology) Any of a class of toxic polypeptide antibiotics found in soil bacteria of genus Streptomyces.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Actinomycin

Singular:

actinomycin

Plural:

actinomycins

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