Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gray-brown mixture consisting mainly of tryocidine and gramicidin, used as a topical antibiotic in treating infections caused by gram-positive bacteria.
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- noun a mixture of the
antibiotics tyrocidine andgramicidin , usedtopically to treatgram-positive bacterial infections
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- noun a mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Tȳrothrix, former bacteria genus name (Greek tūros, cheese; see teuə- in Indo-European roots + Greek thrix, trikh-, hair) + –in.]
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