Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pleuromutilin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pleu-ro-mu-tilin
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of antibacterial drugs that inhibit protein synthesis in bacteria by binding to a peptidyltransferase component within a ribosome.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

pleuromutilins (plural)

Questions

What does pleuromutilin mean?: Any of a class of antibacterial drugs that inhibit protein synthesis in bacteria by binding to a peptidyltransferase component within a ribosome.

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