lankacidin

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English

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Etymology

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Derived from Sri Lanka.

Noun

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lankacidin (plural lankacidins)

  1. (organic chemistry, medicine) Any of a family of macrolide tetraenes, isolated from Streptomyces, that are antitumor antibiotics.