English Explanatory Dictionary

polymyxin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several toxic antibiotics, derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa, used to treat infections by gram-negative bacteria

Word forms

polymyxin polymyxins

Etymology

From translingual polymyxa + -in, from Bacillus polymyxa, from which the antibiotic was isolated.

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