phthiocol
[ thahy-uh-kawl, -kol ]
nounBiochemistry.
a yellow crystalline substance, C11H8O3, produced by the human tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, having antibiotic and blood-clotting properties.
Origin of phthiocol
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