Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fradicin

1 sense of fradicin

Sense 1
neomycin, fradicin, Neobiotic -- (an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery)
       => antibiotic, antibiotic drug -- (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs")
       => antiseptic -- (a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues)