Associations to the word «Actinomycin»

Wiktionary

ACTINOMYCIN, noun. (protein) (pharmaceutical drug) Any of a class of toxic polypeptide antibiotics found in soil bacteria of genus Streptomyces.

Dictionary definition

ACTINOMYCIN, noun. Any of various red antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats