Streptomycin

Definition: Streptomycin

Streptomycin

Noun

1. An antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis.

Date "streptomycin" was first used: 1944. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	O-2-Deoxy-2-(methylamino)-alpha-L-glucopyranosyl-(1-2)-O-5- deoxy-3-C-formyl-alpha-L-lyxofuranosyl-(1-4)-N,N'-bis- (aminoiminomethyl)-D-streptamine. Antibiotic substance produced by the soil actinomycete Streptomyces griseus. It acts by inhibiting the initiation and elongation processes during protein synthesis. (references)
Medicine	A group of antibiotics produced by cultures of Streptomyces griseus. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Streptomycin was the first of a class of drugs called aminoglycosides to be discovered, and was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis. It is derived from the actinobacterium Streptomyces griseus.

It was first isolated on October 19 1943 by Albert Schatz, a research student at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. However, according to academic tradition, Schatz's supervisor, Professor Selman Abraham Waksman, took credit for his student's discovery and received the Nobel prize in Physiology in 1952. Schatz was belatedly awarded the Rutgers medal in 1994, at the age of 74.

Streptomycin cannot be given orally, but must be administered by regular intramuscular injection.

Synonym: Streptomycin

Synonym: Antibiotics. (additional references)

Crosswords: Streptomycin

English words defined with "streptomycin": dihydrostreptomycin ♦ streptomyces, Streptomyces griseus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Streptomycin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (streptomycin), German (streptomycin), Swedish (streptomycin).

Domain	Title
Books	Streptomycin : kemi, biosyntese og virkningsmekanisme (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Shows photo of Selman Waksman and associates testing Streptomycin, a bacterial antibiotic produced by the soil actinomycete - chiefly used in the treatment of tuberculosis. New Jersey Agriculture Experimental Station at Rutgers University. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Streptomycin is the antibiotic of choice. (references)
		Gentamicin is used when streptomycin is not available. (references)
		The drugs of choice are streptomycin or gentamycin, but a number of other antibiotics are also effective. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Streptomycin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Streptomycin" is used about 40 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%	40	54,274

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.

Language		Translations for "streptomycin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		stretomocinë. (various references)

Arabic		‏الستربتومايسين عقار طبي. (various references)

Bulgarian		стрептомицин. (various references)

Chinese		肺病特效药. (various references)

Czech		streptomycin. (various references)

Danish		streptomycin. (various references)

Dutch		streptomycine. (various references)

Finnish		streptomysiini. (various references)

French		streptomycine. (various references)

German		Streptomycin. (various references)

Greek		στρεπτομυκίνη. (various references)

Hungarian		sztreptomicin. (various references)

Italian		streptomicina. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ストックホル� 症候群 (stock point, Stockhom syndrome, stomach, stop, stop bit, stop motion, stoplight, stopper, stopwatch, straight, straight course, straight perm, straight permanent wave, straight punch, strap, strategy, streaker, streaking, stream, streamer, street, street angel, street furniture, street girl, streetcar, streetwalker, stress, stretch, stretching, stride, strike, strike zone, striker, string, strings, strip, strip girl, strip mill, strip show, stripe, stripper, striptease, structure), ストレッチ�"物 (stretch fabric). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ストマイ , ストレプトマイシン . (various references)

Pig Latin		eptomycinstray

Portuguese		estreptomicina. (various references)

Romanian		streptomicinã. (various references)

Russian		стрептомицин. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		streptomicin. (various references)

Spanish		estreptomicina. (various references)

Swedish		streptomycin. (various references)

Turkish		streptomisin (streptomycine). (various references)

Ukrainian		стрептоміцин. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	streptos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "streptomycin": streptomycins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Streptomycin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: streptomyacin, streptomycine. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: introspect.
	-3 letters: contempts, cornetist, impotency, impotents, inceptors, inspector, intercoms, orpiments, posterity, tectonism, testimony.
	-4 letters: centimos, centrism, centrist, citterns, cointers, comprise, conspire, contempt, contrite, corniest, corpsmen, cottiers, cronyism, cytosine, encrypts, enormity, entropic, eponymic, imposter, impotent, inceptor, incomers, incorpse, intercom, isometry, misentry, mortices, necropsy, nepotism, nepotist, noticers, omitters, orpiment, pentomic, pimentos, pointers, porniest, portents, promines.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: streptomycins.
	+5 letters: thrombocytopenias.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
streptomycin	45
blight fire streptomycin	3
streptomycin sulfate	2
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Streptomycin

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Streptomycin

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