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noun
Any of several toxic antibiotics, derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa, used to treat infections by gram-negative bacteria
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
any of several toxic antibiotics obtained from a particular soil bacterium
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: antibiotic, antibiotic drug
History
From translingual polymyxa + -in, from Bacillus polymyxa, from which the antibiotic was isolated.
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