Definition of bleomycin in English:
 bleomycin
noun ˌbliːəʊˈmʌɪsɪnˌblēōˈmīsin
mass nounMedicine An antibiotic used to treat Hodgkin's disease and other cancers.
The drug is obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces verticillus
 Example sentencesExamples
-  In another trial, two of 24 participants receiving bleomycin withdrew either because of the pain of the injections or because of pain after the injections.
 -  It has been reported that administration of a high dose of bleomycin often leads to lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis in bleomycin-treated patients.
 -  All except 2 patients developed a fever after instillation of bleomycin.
 -  Several drugs are associated with reactive oxygen species generation and lung injury with the most widely investigated of them being bleomycin.
 -  Chemotherapy may be useful at a designated wart clinic, where several patients can be treated from the same vial of bleomycin in a single day.
 
Origin
  
1960s: an arbitrary alteration of earlier phleomycin, the name of a related antibiotic.