bleomycin

English

Etymology

From [Term?] +‎ -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).

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Noun

bleomycin (countable and uncountable, plural bleomycins)

1. (pharmacology) Any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 206:

     Bleomycin, which could scar lungs without warning, was an antibiotic derived from a mold.