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phthiocol
[ thahy-uh-kawl, -kol ]
noun
, Biochemistry.
- a yellow crystalline substance, C 1 1 H 8 O 3 , produced by the human tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, having antibiotic and blood-clotting properties.
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