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An agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease
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antimicrobial
Word definitions for antimicrobial in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 tending to destroy or capable of destroying microbes 2 inhibiting the growth of microbes 3 preventing or counteracting the pathogenic action of microbes alt. 1 tending to destroy or capable of destroying microbes 2 inhibiting the growth of microbes ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms [syn: antimicrobic ] n. an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease [syn: disinfectant , germicide , antimicrobic ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth. Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped according to the microorganisms they act primarily against. For example, antibiotics are used against bacteria and antifungals are used ...
Usage examples of antimicrobial.
Antiretroviral drugs to control HIV and antimicrobials to control secondary infections can prolong life, but eventually the immune system becomes so damaged that patients are considered immunodeficient and death usually follows in a few years.
CohenEpidemiology of Drug Resistance: Implication for a Post Antimicrobial Era.
They've been giving you antimicrobials, and an analogue's on the way.
If they come down with it, or the supply of antimicrobials gives out, this century could be the one that's a ten.
We have him on the antimicrobials and adjuvants which the South Carolina virus responded to.
They ran out, as Finch had predicted, of clean linens and NHS masks, and more urgently, of temps, antimicrobials, and aspirin.
If they come down with it, or the supply of antimicrobials gives out, this century could be the one that's a ten.
We have him on the antimicrobials and adjuvants which the South Carolina virus responded to.
They ran out, as Finch had predicted, of clean linens and NHS masks, and more urgently, of temps, antimicrobials, and aspirin.