amphotericin

[ am-fuh-ter-uh-sin ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. an amphoteric antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus and used in the treatment of fungal infections.

Origin of amphotericin

1
First recorded in 1950–55; amphoteric + -in2

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