| ACTINOMYCINS | • actinomycins n. Plural of actinomycin. • ACTINOMYCIN n. any of various antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria. |
| ADRIAMYCINS | • ADRIAMYCIN n. a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin. |
| ANTIMYCINS | • antimycins n. Plural of antimycin. • ANTIMYCIN n. a crystalline antibiotic used as a fungicide etc. |
| BLEOMYCINS | • bleomycins n. Plural of bleomycin. • BLEOMYCIN n. a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkins Disease. |
| CLINDAMYCINS | • CLINDAMYCIN n. an antibiotic drug used for serious infections that do not respond to other antibiotics. |
| DAUNOMYCINS | • daunomycins n. Plural of daunomycin. • DAUNOMYCIN n. an antibiotic used in treatment of leukaemia. |
| ERYTHROMYCINS | • erythromycins n. Plural of erythromycin. • ERYTHROMYCIN n. a broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by an actinomycete and administered orally or topically. |
| GLYCINS | • glycins n. Plural of glycin. • GLYCIN n. the simplest amino acid, present in proteins, formerly known as glycocoll, also GLYCINE. |
| KANAMYCINS | • kanamycins n. Plural of kanamycin. • KANAMYCIN n. a broad-spectrum antibiotic derived from a Japanese soil streptomyces. |
| LINCOMYCINS | • lincomycins n. Plural of lincomycin. • LINCOMYCIN n. an antibiotic used for streptococcal infections. |
| MITOMYCINS | • mitomycins n. Plural of mitomycin. • MITOMYCIN n. a kind of antibiotic. |
| NEOMYCINS | • neomycins n. Plural of neomycin. • NEOMYCIN n. an antibiotic used to treat skin and eye infections. |
| OLEANDOMYCINS | • oleandomycins n. Plural of oleandomycin. • OLEANDOMYCIN n. an antibiotic produced by a streptomyces. |
| PUROMYCINS | • puromycins n. Plural of puromycin. • PUROMYCIN n. a type of antibiotic. |
| RIFAMYCINS | • rifamycins n. Plural of rifamycin. • RIFAMYCIN n. an antibiotic. |
| SPECTINOMYCINS | • spectinomycins n. Plural of spectinomycin. • SPECTINOMYCIN n. a white crystalline broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by a bacterium that is used clinically esp. in the form of its hydrochloride to treat gonorrhea. |
| STREPTOMYCINS | • streptomycins n. Plural of streptomycin. • STREPTOMYCIN n. an antibiotic produced by the soil bacterium Streptomyces griseus, the first drug to be successful against tuberculosis. |
| VANCOMYCINS | • VANCOMYCIN n. an antibiotic drug obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces orientalis, used against bacteria that are resistant to other antibiotics. |
| VIOMYCINS | • viomycins n. Plural of viomycin. • VIOMYCIN n. a drug used in the treatment of TB. |