Definition of "bleomycin"

bleomycin

noun
plural bleomycins
1. (pharmacology) Any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.
  Quotations
  Bleomycin, which could scar lungs without warning, was an antibiotic derived from a mold.
  2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 206