Blastomycin

/ˌblæstəˈmaɪsɪn/ noun

A chemical substance extracted from Blastomyces fungi, sometimes used in medical testing or research on fungal infections.

From 'Blastomyces' plus '-in' (a chemical compound suffix), created in the early 1900s as researchers studied the fungus's properties.

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