Medical Dictionary

squalamine

noun squa·la·mine
\ˈskwā-lə-ˌmēn, ˌskwāl-ˈam-ˌēn\

Medical Definition of SQUALAMINE

:  a steroid broad-spectrum antibiotic C34H67N3O5S that was originally obtained from a dogfish shark and has been shown to inhibit angiogenesis in tumors

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