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Meaning of "kanamycin" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KANAMYCIN

From New Latin kanamyceticus.
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PRONUNCIATION OF KANAMYCIN

kanamycin  [ˌkænəˈmaɪsɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KANAMYCIN

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conjunction
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Kanamycin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KANAMYCIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kanamycin

Kanamycin is an aminoglycoside bacteriocidal antibiotic, available in oral, intravenous, and intramuscular forms, and used to treat a wide variety of infections. Kanamycin is isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces kanamyceticus and its most commonly used form is kanamycin sulfate.

Definition of kanamycin in the English dictionary

The definition of kanamycin in the dictionary is an aminoglycoside antibiotic obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces kanamyceticus, used in the treatment of various infections, esp those caused by Gram-negative bacteria. Formula: C18H36N4O11.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KANAMYCIN


actinomycin
ˌæktɪnəʊˈmaɪsɪn
adriamycin
ˌeɪdrɪəˈmaɪsɪn
antimycin
ˌæntɪˈmaɪsɪn
Aureomycin
ˌɔːrɪəʊˈmaɪsɪn
bleomycin
ˌbliːəʊˈmaɪsɪn
clindamycin
ˌklɪndəˈmaɪsɪn
daunomycin
ˌdɔːnəˈmaɪsɪn
erythromycin
ɪˌrɪθrəʊˈmaɪsɪn
gentamicin
ˌdʒɛntəˈmaɪsɪn
lincomycin
ˌlɪŋkəʊˈmaɪsɪn
mitomycin
ˌmaɪtəʊˈmaɪsɪn
neomycin
ˌniːəʊˈmaɪsɪn
oleandomycin
ˌəʊlɪˌændəˈmaɪsɪn
puromycin
ˌpjʊərəʊˈmaɪsɪn
rifamycin
ˌriːfəˈmaɪsɪn
spectinomycin
ˌspɛktɪnəˈmaɪsɪn
streptomycin
ˌstrɛptəʊˈmaɪsɪn
Terramycin
ˌtɛrəˈmaɪsɪn
vancomycin
ˌvænkəʊˈmaɪsɪn
viomycin
ˌvaɪəˈmaɪsɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KANAMYCIN

kana
kanae
Kanak
Kanaka
Kananga
Kanara
Kanarese
Kanazawa
kanban
Kanchenjunga
Kanchipuram
Kandahar
Kandinsky
Kandy
kane
kaneh
kang
Kang-de
Kang-te
kanga

WORDS THAT END LIKE KANAMYCIN

allicin
bacitracin
bacteriocin
capsaicin
ciprofloxacin
clavecin
daunorubicin
doxorubicin
glycin
indometacin
indomethacin
leucin
mucin
niacin
novobiocin
oxytocin
ricin
rifampicin
salicin
Szczecin

Synonyms and antonyms of kanamycin in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kanamycin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KANAMYCIN

Find out the translation of kanamycin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kanamycin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kanamycin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卡那霉素
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kanamicina
570 millions of speakers

English

kanamycin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kanamycin
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كاناميسين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

канамицин
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

canamicina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্যানামাইসিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kanamycine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kanamycin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kanamycin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カナマイシン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

카나마이신
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kanamycin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kanamycin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கெனாமைசின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कनामाइसिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kanamisin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kanamicina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kanamycynę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

канаміцин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kanamicina
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καναμυκίνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kanamisien
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

kanamycin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kanamycin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kanamycin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KANAMYCIN»

The term «kanamycin» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.515 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KANAMYCIN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «kanamycin» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «kanamycin» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kanamycin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KANAMYCIN»

Discover the use of kanamycin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kanamycin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Electroporation Protocols for Microorganisms
For M. smegmatis, kanamycin resistance has been widely used (25), since the commonly used mc2155 strain is sensitive to kanamycin at low concentrations and the rate of spontaneous mutation to kanamycin resistance for mc2155 is ...
Jac A. Nickoloff, 1995
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Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
KANAMYCIN. Because of the structural similarities between kanamycin and amikacin (amikacin is synthesized from kanamycin), the pharmaco kinetics of kanamycin and amikacin are very similar. However, kanamycin is among the least ...
Jim E. Riviere, Mark G. Papich, 2009
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Handbook of Microbiological Media, Third Edition
Og Ferric ammonium citrate 0.5g NaN3 0.15g Kanamycin sulfate solution 10. OmL pH 7.0 ± 0.2 at 25°C Caution: Sodium azide is toxic. Azides also react with metals and disposal must be highly diluted. Source: This medium is available as a ...
Ronald M. Atlas, 2004
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Frontiers on Separation Science and Tech. .
SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF KANAMYCIN A AND B FROM THEIR FERMENTATION BROTH Z. Q. LI, X. P. XU AND Y. H. GUO * Department of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China E-mail: ...
‎2004
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Antibiotics in Laboratory Medicine
Resistance to penicillin/amikacin synergism in enterococci was simultaneously reported by another group (41). Additional study of clinical isolates with high- level streptomycin and kanamycin resistance revealed an explanation for these ...
Victor Lorian, 2005
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High Performance Liquid Chromatography in Phytochemical Analysis
Kanamycin interferes with protein synthesis in the bacterial cell. The bactericidal activity of kanamycin is attributable to irreversible binding to 30S and 50S ribosomal subunits, resulting in defective protein synthesis. Kanamycin contains  ...
Monika Waksmundzka-Hajnos, Joseph Sherma, 2010
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ANTIBIOTICS: ISOLATION, SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION
H. Kanamycin H.l Introduction u.l.l Producing organism Kanamycin is a basic water soluble antibiotic first described by Umezawa at a£.1 in 1957. It is active against Mycobacteria, gram-positive and gram-negative organisms and is produced ...
Marvin J. Weinstein, Gerald H. Wagman, 2011
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Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal ...
K. KANAMYCIN. Antibiotic (Aminoglycoside) PREGNANCY RECOMMENDATION : Human Data Suggest Risk BREASTFEEDING RECOMMENDATION: Limited Human Data - Probably Compatible PREGNANCY SUMMARY Except for ...
Gerald G. Briggs, Roger K. Freeman, Sumner J. Yaffe, 2011
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Plant Cell and Tissue Culture
The use of kanamycin as a selective agent is illustrative of this. In many species, such as Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato) (Fillati et al., 1987), Brassica napus ( oil seed rape) (Moloney et al., 1989) and Lactuca sativa (lettuce) (Michelmore et  ...
Indra K. Vasil, Trevor A. Thorpe, 1994
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Yeast Gene Analysis: Yeast Gene Analysis
These 34 bases lie at each end of the kanamycin resistance gene and this deletion cassette also generates stable deletions. However, the kanamycin resistance gene can subsequently be removed from the genome after transformation of the ...
‎1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KANAMYCIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kanamycin is used in the context of the following news items.
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Study shows Otsuka's TB drug works even in worst cases - PMLiVE
... fluoroquinolone and another second-line injectable such as amikacin, kanamycin, or capreomycin, dramatically reducing treatment options. «PMLiVE, Jul 15»
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Two Drugs Promising in XDR-TB
... kanamycin (Kantrex), or capreomycin (Capastat). XDR-TB was first reported in 2006 at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto and has ... «MedPage Today, Jul 15»
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Rhizobium–legume symbiosis in the absence of Nod factors: two …
For their culture, the medium was supplemented with kanamycin (50 μg ml–1) and cefotaxime (20 μg ml–1), respectively. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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A fluorescence-based bioassay for antibacterials and its application …
Tetracycline, paromomycin, kanamycin, amoxicillin, spectinomycin and ampicillin were tested analogously to erythromycin in the concentration ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Together bacteria invade antibiotic landscapes
"The other chamber is a proverbial hell: in addition to nutrients, it contains a very high dose of the antibiotic kanamycin, which is lethal for these ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
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Density-dependent adaptive resistance allows swimming bacteria to …
Strikingly, we observed that motile nonresistant E. coli bacteria can actively colonize environments where the kanamycin concentration is well ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Drug resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex …
... resistant to any of the fluoroquinolones and at least one of the three injectable second line drugs (Amikacin, Kanamycin and/or Capreomycin) ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
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Cuban Ministry of Agriculture comes out against introducing …
Engineered with a ubiquitous soil bacterium, Agrobacterium, the gene ensured resistance to the growth-inhibiting antibiotic kanamycin. «Companiesandmarkets.com, Jun 15»
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Tuberculosis that resists cure
When in addition, it is also resistant to fluoroquinolones and at least one of three injectable second-line drugs, viz., Amikacin, Kanamycin and ... «The Indian Express, Jun 15»
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TB-infected Passenger from India to Chicago Sets Off Scare
... and rifampin, plus any fluoroquinolone and at least one of three injectable second-line drugs, that is, amikacin, kanamycin, or capreomycin.”). «India West, Jun 15»

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