黴素

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Chinese

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bacteria; fungi; mouldy plain; element
trad. (黴素)
simp. (霉素)

Etymology

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Likely rebracketing from 青黴素青霉素 (qīngméisù, “penicillin”). Phono-semantic matching of English -mycin or -micin in many instances.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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黴素

  1. (pharmacology) Indicates an antibiotic (especially one of the penicillin, aminoglycoside, macrolide or glycopeptide classes), an antituberculotic or an antimetabolite isolated from a bacterial or fungal species.

Derived terms

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