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What is the connection between the latin word penicillus and the modern drug penicillin?
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∙ 10y ago
the word penicillin relates to penicillus because the antibiotic was named due to the paintbrush shape of its mould cells. penicillus means paintbrush.
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Why was penicillin named penicillin?
The word is from modern Latin, Penicillium Notatum, which was the name of the mould from which it was first obtained. From the Latin Penicillus or 'paintbrush' referring to the shape of the mould cells
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