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DIHYDROSTREPTOMYCIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dihydrostreptomycin mean? 

DIHYDROSTREPTOMYCIN (noun)
  The noun DIHYDROSTREPTOMYCIN has 1 sense:

1. antibiotic consisting of a hydrogenated form of streptomycin; used against tuberculosis and tularemia and Gram-negative organismsplay

  Familiarity information: DIHYDROSTREPTOMYCIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIHYDROSTREPTOMYCIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Antibiotic consisting of a hydrogenated form of streptomycin; used against tuberculosis and tularemia and Gram-negative organisms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dihydrostreptomycin" is a kind of...):

antibiotic; antibiotic drug (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections)


 Context examples 


Dihydrostreptomycin sulfate inhibits protein synthesis by binding to the 30S ribosomal subunit.

(Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

Dihydrostreptomycin depends on active transport across the bacterial cell membrane before irreversibly binding S12 protein of the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit.

(Dihydrostreptomycin, NCI Thesaurus)



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