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Definition: Tyrothricin |
TyrothricinNoun1. A mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A polypeptide antibiotic mixture obtained from Bacillus brevis. It consists of a mixture of three tyrocidines (60%) and several gramicidins (20%) and is very toxic to blood, liver, kidneys, meninges, and the olfactory apparatus. It is used topically. (references) |
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Crosswords: Tyrothricin |
| English words defined with "tyrothricin": tyrocidin, tyrocidine. (references) |
| "Tyrothricin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tyrothricin" 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.
| Language | Translations for "tyrothricin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tyrothricin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tyrotricine, tyrothricine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tyrotrisiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tyrothricine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tyrothricin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τυροθρικίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tirotricina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yrothricintay tirotricine, tirotricina. (various references) tirotricina. (various references) tyrotricin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tyrothricin": tyrothricins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-n-o-r-r-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: ornithic, tonicity. | |
-4 letters: introit, noritic, thionic, tricorn, trinity, tyronic. | |
-5 letters: chitin, chiton, chitty, citrin, citron, cortin, intort, ironic, nitric, otitic, rhyton, thirty, thoric, thorny, torchy, tricot, triton, yttric. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-i-n-o-r-r-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: tyrothricins. | |
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