an antibiotic used as an alternative to penicillin
lincomycin in American English
(ˌlɪŋkoʊˈmaɪsɪn)
US
noun
an antibiotic drug, C18H34N2O6S, used in the treatment of various bacterial diseases, esp. those resistant to penicillin or those involving an allergy to penicillin
Word origin
(Streptomyces lincoln(ensis), the bacteria from which derived (isolated from a soil sample collected near Lincoln3, Nebr.) + myc- + -in1