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TYROTHRICIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tyrothricin" is a kind of...):
antibiotic; antibiotic drug (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections)
Meronyms (substance of "tyrothricin"):
tyrocidin; tyrocidine (a basic polypeptide antibiotic derived from a soil bacterium; a major component of tyrothricin)
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