streptolysin
[ strep-tuh-lahy-sin ]
nounBacteriology.
a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
Origin of streptolysin
11900–05; strepto- (representing generic names which begin with this element, as Streptococcus) + (hemo)lysin
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