streptolysin

[ strep-tuh-lahy-sin ]

nounBacteriology.
  1. a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.

Origin of streptolysin

1
1900–05; strepto- (representing generic names which begin with this element, as Streptococcus) + (hemo)lysin

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