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Substance that destroys bacteria
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antibiotic
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context pharmacology English) Of or relating to antibiotics. 2 (context obsolete English) Of or relating to the theory that extraterrestrial life does not exist. n. (context pharmacology English) Any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE new ▪ So for purely practical reasons, microbes were the best route for discovering new antibiotics . ▪ The company, named for a friend who died from an infection, would search for new targets for antibiotics . ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to antibiotic drugs
Usage examples of antibiotic.
Antibiotics also can be used to prevent illness after inhalational exposure to anthrax spores.
It may be that, for those individuals with high exposure to airborne anthrax spores, the antibiotic regimen should be extended an additional forty days, just to be on the safe side.
And for those at greatest risk of inhalational anthrax, such as those in the room when an anthrax-laden letter is opened, the option of vaccination in addition to antibiotics should be considered.
Currently, the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile has enough antibiotics to fully treat two million people after an anthrax exposure, and recent federal funding will soon increase that number to millions more.
To begin with, the antibiotics used to treat anthrax carry serious side effects for some people.
He could deliver babies, stitch up wounds, set broken limbs, and comfort the dying, and he had acquired basic knowledge of the vectors of infection, of antisepsis and antibiotics.
Doc Clark had pumped her full of IV antibiotics and antivenom until her arm throbbed, too.
Feeling bitterly inadequate, she tried another broad-spectrum antibiotic, antiviral combination on him.
This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections.
An application of the topical antibiotic hydrocortisone relieved the itch .
He bought needle forceps, a nylon suture kit, surgical needles, scalpels, drips, antihistamines, hydrocortisone, penicillin tablets, some powdered antibiotics and three tins of vitamin B.
He told himself that what they were doing was a natural outgrowth of the scientific techniques of the past century, that it was no more terrifying to restore life than it was to preserve it with antibiotics or serums.
A number of different antibiotics have been shown to promote plasmid transfer between different bacteria, and it might even be considered that some antibiotics are bacterial pheromones.
There were antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medication, anabolic steroids, including a full course of prednisone, and at least ten different types of pain medication, including codeine and morphine.
I would suggest antipyrine acetylsalicylate to bring the fever down, and a broad spectrum antibiotic.