Usually means: Antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis.
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  2. puromycin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  7. puromycin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (puromycin)

▸ noun:  (pharmacology) An antibiotic that is a strong inhibitor of protein translation.

Similar:
puromycine, purpuromycin, kirromycin, pleuromutilin, pikromycin, pyridomycin, peliomycin, immucillin, mikamycin, sparsomycin, more...

Opposite:
antagonist, reverse, counterpart

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Similar:
puromycine, purpuromycin, kirromycin, pleuromutilin, pikromycin, pyridomycin, peliomycin, immucillin, mikamycin, sparsomycin, more...

Opposite:
antagonist, reverse, counterpart



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