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colicin

American  
[kol-uh-sin] / ˈkɒl ə sɪn /

noun

Pharmacology.

  1. any bacteriocin produced by certain strains of Escherichia coli and having a lethal effect on strains other than the producing strain.

Etymology

Origin of colicin

1945–50; < French colicine, equivalent to coli- ( coliform ) + -cine, probably extracted from names of antibiotics ending in -mycine -mycin

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She say I didn' need to learn nothin' 'cept how to count so's I could feed de mules widout colicin' 'em.

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