bleomycin
/ˌblɪəʊˈmaɪsɪn/noun
mass noun
1- Medicine an antibiotic used to treat Hodgkin's disease and other cancers【医】博来霉素, 争光霉素。
1.1
- The drug is obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces verticillus.该药从轮枝链霉菌中提取。
词源
1960s: an arbitrary alteration of earlier phleomycin, the name of a related antibiotic.