Definition of gramicidin in English:
gramicidin
noun ˌɡramɪˈsʌɪdɪnˌɡraməˈsīdn
mass nounMedicine An antibiotic with a wide range of activity, used in many medicinal preparations.
This antibiotic is obtained from the bacterium Bacillus brevis
Example sentencesExamples
- In fact, gramicidin is one of the first known antibiotics.
- Her general practitioner had treated it unsuccessfully with neomycin and gramicidin ointment and oral flucloxacillin and metronidazole.
- These interesting properties have made gramicidin an appropriate model for studying solvent effects on the structural changes of peptides and proteins.