tobramycin
/ˌtɒbrəˈmaɪsɪn/noun
mass noun
1- Medicine a bacterial antibiotic used chiefly to treat pseudomonas infections【医】妥布霉素; 托普霉素。
1.1
- The drug is obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces tenebrarius.妥布霉素从黑暗色链霉菌中提取。
词源
1970s.: from to- (of unknown origin) + Latin (tene)bra(rius) 'belonging to darkness' (part of the name of the bacterium) + -MYCIN.