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Definition: Gentamicin |
GentamicinNoun1. An antibiotic (trade name Garamycin) that is derived from an actinomycete; used in treating infections of the urinary tract. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: GentamicinSynonym: Garamycin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gentamicin |
| Specialty definitions using "gentamicin": Netilmicin ♦ Sisomicin. (references) |
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Health | Some aminoglycoside antibiotics, such as gentamicin and streptomycin, are used to treat Ménière's disease. (references) | |
Burkholderia mallei is usually sensitive to tetracyclines, ciprofloxacin, streptomycin, novobiocin, gentamicin, imipenem, ceftrazidime, and the sulfonamides. (references) | ||
Gentamicin also can affect the hair cells of the cochlea, though, and cause hearing loss. In cases that do not respond to medical management, surgery may be indicated. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gentamicin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gentamicin" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "gentamicin": Prednisolone and Gentamicin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gentamicin | 114 |
gentamicin sulfate | 31 |
gentamicin ophthalmic solution sulfate | 9 |
gentamicin ointment sulfate | 3 |
dosing gentamicin | 2 |
compounding gentamicin | 2 |
duration gentamicin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gentamicin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | è‰®ä»–éœ‰ç´ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gentamycin, gentamicin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gentamicine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | gentamisiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gentamycine, gentamicine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gentamicin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gentamicina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entamicingay gentamicina. (various references) gentamicina. (various references) gentamicin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gentamicin": gentamicins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: antigenic, enigmatic. | |
-2 letters: enacting, enticing, magnetic, mannitic, menacing. | |
-3 letters: ancient, anteing, antigen, canting, gametic, gentian, imagine, intimae, iteming, mannite, meaning, mincing, mintage, minting, nematic, teaming, tegmina. | |
-4 letters: acetin, acting, aiming, aminic, anemic, anting, canine, caning, cannie, centai, cinema, citing, eating, enatic, encina, enigma, etamin, gamine, gannet, iceman, ignite, incage, incant, incite, ingate, inmate, innate, intima, intime, intine, macing, magnet, mantic, mating, meting, mining, naming, niacin, tamein, taming, tannic, tieing, timing, tining, tinman, tinmen. | |
-5 letters: acing, acini, actin, agent, ament, amice, amici, amine, amnic, anent, anime, animi, antic, enact, entia, gamic, gamin, genic, genii, giant, icing, image, imine, inane, magic, mange, manic, matin, meant, menta, minae, mince, nance, tenia, tinea, tinge. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: gentamicins, magnificent. | |
+2 letters: antimagnetic, cinematizing, emancipating. | |
+3 letters: cabinetmaking, magnificently, miscegenation, recriminating. | |
+4 letters: cabinetmakings, intercomparing, miscegenations. | |
+5 letters: counterclaiming, decontaminating, excommunicating, miscegenational, recontaminating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 74 61 6D 69 63 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -. - .- -- .. -.-. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101101 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n t a m i c i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 0074 0061 006D 0069 0063 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718086677975697580 |
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