Usually means: Antibiotic for severe bacterial infections.
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  1. gentamicin: Merriam-Webster
  2. gentamicin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gentamicin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gentamicin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gentamicin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gentamicin, gentamicin: Wordnik
  7. gentamicin: Wiktionary
  8. gentamicin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gentamicin: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. gentamicin: Dictionary.com
  11. Gentamicin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. gentamicin: Rhymezone
  13. gentamicin: FreeDictionary.org
  14. gentamicin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. gentamicin: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gentamicin: Legal dictionary

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  1. gentamicin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. gentamicin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gentamicin: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. gentamicin: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gentamicin)

noun:  (biochemistry, pharmacology) A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic mixture, derived from an actinomycete (Micromonospora echinospora), extensively used as the sulfate in treating severe systemic bacterial infections (as of the urinary tract); (3R,4R,5R)-2-{[(1S,2S,3R,4S,6R)-4,6-diamino-3-{[(2R,3R,6S)-3-amino-6-[(1R)-1-(methylamino)ethyl]oxan-2-yl]oxy}-2-hydroxycyclohexyl]oxy}-5-methyl-4-(methylamino)oxane-3,5-diol.

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