English Explanatory Dictionary

mitomycin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.

Word forms

mitomycin mitomycins

Etymology

From mito- (“nucleotoxic agent”) + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).

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