TYROTHRICIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tyrothricin mean? 

• TYROTHRICIN (noun)
  The noun TYROTHRICIN has 1 sense:

1. a mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYROTHRICIN (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)