| 释义 |
rif·a·my·cin
\ˌrifəˈmīsən\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, alteration of earlier rifomycin, from rif- (from Rififi, title of a French film (1954), name arbitrarily assigned by the drug's Italian discoverers to a group of antibacterial substances) + -o- + -mycin
: any of several antibiotics that are derived from a bacterium of the genus Streptomyces (S. mediterranei) |