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.