neomycin
neo·my·cin
noun
1.
an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery
Origin
From neo- + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
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