viomycin
- noun
- /ˌvaɪəˈmaɪsɪn/
- Specialized
- The patient received an injection of viomycin as part of his tuberculosis treatment regimen.
Examples
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Doctors may prescribe viomycin along with other antibiotics to combat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
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Resistance to viomycin requires the use of alternative medications for effective therapy.
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Doctors often prescribe viomycin for tuberculosis.
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Many patients respond well to viomycin treatment.
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Doctors may prescribe viomycin along with other antibiotics to combat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
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The patient received an injection of viomycin as part of his tuberculosis treatment regimen.
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Resistance to viomycin requires the use of alternative medications for effective therapy.
Synonyms
2
7.0
A medicine that kills bacteria and treats tuberculosis and other infections
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7.3
A medicine that kills bacteria and treats tuberculosis and other bacterial infections
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6.5
A medicine that treats and prevents tuberculosis
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9.8
A medicine used with other medicines to treat tuberculosis
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7.5
A medicine that kills the bacteria that cause tuberculosis
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9.4
A medicine used to treat tuberculosis when other drugs do not work
An antibiotic medicine used with other drugs to treat tuberculosis
A medicine that kills bacteria used to treat serious infections such as tuberculosis
Surface Forms
Morphology
viomycin = vio + mycin
The element '-mycin' is a specialized biomedical combining form for antibiotics and 'vio' is not a recognizable standalone English base, so the word's meaning is not derivable by an average B1 learner from its parts.
Etymology
Viomycin ends with -mycin, a common ending for antibiotics that comes from a word for 'fungus' and appears in names like streptomycin. So a helpful way to remember viomycin is that it is an 'antibiotic' used to fight the bacteria that cause tuberculosis.