penicillin

Etymology
From. Coined by Alexander Fleming after (now ), a fungus from which penicillin is obtained.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of a group of narrow-spectrum antibiotics obtained from  molds or synthesized, that have a beta-lactam structure and are active against gram-positive bacteria and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases.
 * 2)  A blue mold of the genus  that produces penicillin.

Translations

 * Arabic: بِنِسِلِين
 * Egyptian: بينسيلين
 * Basque: penizilina
 * Belarusian: пеніцылі́н
 * Bulgarian: пеницили́н
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: penicillin
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: penicilino
 * Faroese: penicillin
 * Finnish:
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 * Georgian: პენიცილინი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: penisillín
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ペニシリン
 * Kazakh: пенициллин
 * Khmer: ប៉េនីស៊ីលីន
 * Korean: 페니실린
 * Lithuanian: penicilinas
 * Macedonian: пеницили́н
 * Marathi: पेनिसिलिन
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: penicillin
 * Nynorsk: penicillin
 * Occitan: penicillina
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 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пеницилин
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: penicilín
 * Slovene: penicilin
 * Spanish: penicilina
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: பெனிசிலின்
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: เพนิซิลลิน
 * Tibetan: པན་ནི་སི་ལིན་
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: пеніцилі́н
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.