"colistin" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colistins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "colistin (usually uncountable, plural colistins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
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      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "alt": "a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins",
          "word": "MCR-1"
        },
        {
          "alt": "a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins",
          "roman": "a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins",
          "word": "mcr-1"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, \"The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.\", Washington Post, Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis, May 26",
          "text": "It's the first time this colistin-resistant strain has been found in a person in the United States."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A polymixin antibiotic effective against a range of gram-negative bacteria, sometimes considered a last-resort antibiotic."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "polymyxin"
        },
        {
          "word": "antibiotic"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-colistin-en-noun-Qg6CgdbE",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "polymixin",
          "polymixin"
        ],
        [
          "antibiotic",
          "antibiotic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) A polymixin antibiotic effective against a range of gram-negative bacteria, sometimes considered a last-resort antibiotic."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "polymyxin E"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "colistin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "colistin"
}

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  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "alt": "a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins",
      "word": "MCR-1"
    },
    {
      "alt": "a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins",
      "roman": "a bacterial gene conferring resistance to colistin and polymyxins",
      "word": "mcr-1"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colistins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "colistin (usually uncountable, plural colistins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "polymyxin"
    },
    {
      "word": "antibiotic"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Medicine"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, \"The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.\", Washington Post, Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis, May 26",
          "text": "It's the first time this colistin-resistant strain has been found in a person in the United States."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A polymixin antibiotic effective against a range of gram-negative bacteria, sometimes considered a last-resort antibiotic."
      ],
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          "medicine"
        ],
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          "polymixin"
        ],
        [
          "antibiotic",
          "antibiotic"
        ]
      ],
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        "(medicine) A polymixin antibiotic effective against a range of gram-negative bacteria, sometimes considered a last-resort antibiotic."
      ],
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        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "polymyxin E"
    }
  ],
  "word": "colistin"
}