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

1 sense of lincomycin

Sense 1
lincomycin, Lincocin -- (antibiotic (trade name Lincocin) obtained from a streptomyces bacterium and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections)
       => 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")