Noun
Terramycin
(medicine) An early oxytetracycline
In the spring of 1952, the Pfizer team succeeded in ascertaining the structures of both Terramycin and Aureomycin. Source: Internet
In 1950, Harvard University professor Robert Burns Woodward determined the chemical structure of the related substance, oxytetracycline (Terramycin); the patent protection for its fermentation and production was also first issued in 1950. Source: Internet
Prior to 1952, neither the molecular structure of Terramycin nor that of Aureomycin was known. Source: Internet