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mitomycin

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.

Similar words

mytomicin mitoclomine desertomycin marinomycin mitoquidone mitotane methylenomycin neomycin azinomycin mitoxantrone

Often followed by

c and is in or for treated plus treatment

Word family

mitomycins

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