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polymyxin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables
polymyx-in
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several toxic antibiotics, derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa, used to treat infections by gram-negative bacteria

Etymology

From translingual polymyxa + -in, from Bacillus polymyxa, from which the antibiotic was isolated.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

polymyxins (plural)

Questions

What does polymyxin mean?
Any of several toxic antibiotics, derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa, used to treat infections by gram-negative bacteria
Where does polymyxin come from?
From translingual polymyxa + -in, from Bacillus polymyxa, from which the antibiotic was isolated.

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