/klin'deuh muy"sin/ , n. Pharm.
a toxic semisynthetic antibiotic, C 18 H 33 ClN 2 O 5 S, used to treat serious infections chiefly due to various anaerobic bacteria, esp. Bacteroides.
[ 1965-70; by contr. and rearrangement of chloro-deoxylincomycin an alternate name, equiv. to CHLORO- 2 + DEOXY- + lincomycin an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces lincolnensis; see -MYCIN ]