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Definition: Tobramycin |
TobramycinNoun1. An antibiotic (trade name Nebcin) that is especially effective against gram-negative bacteria. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | An aminoglycoside, broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by Streptomyces tenebrarius. It is effective against gram-negative bacteria, especially the Pseudomonas species. It is a 10% component of the antibiotic complex, nebramycin, produced by the same species. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TobramycinSynonym: Nebcin (n). (additional references) |
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Health | Tobramycin by aerosol form is easier and less expensive to administer than by intravenous injection. (references) | |
An aerosol form of the antibiotic tobramycin significantly reduced Pseudomonas infections in CF patients. (references) | ||
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| "Tobramycin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tobramycin" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tobramycin": Tobramycin and Dexamethasone. 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 |
tobramycin | 66 |
ophthalmic solution tobramycin | 6 |
tobramycin ophthalmic | 4 |
ophthalmic solution tobramycin usp | 3 |
tobramycin vancomycin vs | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tobramycin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | è„±æ™®éœ‰ç´ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tobramycin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tobramycine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tobramysiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tobramycine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tobramycin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tobramicina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obramycintay tobramicina. (various references) tobramicina. (various references) tobramycin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: acrimony, baryonic, caryotin, corybant, minatory, romantic. | |
-3 letters: acronym, barytic, botanic, carotin, corbina, mantric, minorca, taborin, tyronic. | |
-4 letters: action, anomic, aortic, aroint, aroynt, atomic, atonic, barony, baryon, bicorn, bicron, binary, bonaci, bonita, botany, brainy, briony, bromic, bromin, cairny, camion, cantor, carbon, carboy, carton, cation, citron, combat, comity, contra, corban, cortin, corymb, crambo, craton, crayon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: combinatory. | |
+4 letters: confirmability, cyanobacterium, extraembryonic, rambunctiously, turbomachinery. | |
+5 letters: combinatorially, corynebacterium, incomparability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 62 72 61 6D 79 63 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- -... .-. .- -- -.--. -.-. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01100010 01110010 01100001 01101101 01111001 01100011 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o b r a m y c i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0062 0072 0061 006D 0079 0063 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54816884677991697580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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