kanamycin

About 0.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections and tuberculosis.

Similar words

kanamycine canamycin amikacin bekanamycin kitasamycin kinamycin rokitamycin josamycin kasugamycin mikamycin

Often followed by

resistance and sulfate is or in resistant a was

Word family

kanamycins