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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
antibiotic
noun
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■ 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.
▪ More to the point, as resistant strains emerge, the greater becomes our need for new antibiotics to cure sick people.
▪ Pfizer has had setbacks, such as the withdrawal of its new antibiotic, Trovan.
■ NOUN
resistance
▪ Importantly, 27 patients carried two or more strains with different antibiotic resistances.
▪ There were two startling things about antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria.
▪ This should help slow the rate at which bacteria develop antibiotic resistance.
▪ Moreover, the problem of antibiotic resistance is global.
▪ Genes that have great clinical importance include those responsible for antibiotic resistance.
therapy
▪ It has been postulated that the symptoms of gonorrhoea have diminished since the introduction of effective antibiotic therapy.
▪ It can sometimes be difficult to decide when to start antibiotic therapy.
▪ Twelve of these children received previous antibiotic therapy for various reasons, with possible inadvertent effects on the diagnosis of H pylori.
▪ A course of low-dose tetracycline antibiotic therapy is often effective, but topical steroid creams should be avoided.
▪ Despite aggressive antibiotic therapy, the epidemic strain continued to be isolated from his sputum and subsequently from blood cultures.
▪ She received an 11-day course of empirical antibiotic therapy and was discharged.
treatment
▪ Before antibiotic treatment was used, the condition was universally fatal.
▪ Cefotiame 2 g intravenously two times daily was used for antibiotic treatment of the cholecystitis.
▪ During this antibiotic treatment the patient experienced no relief of symptoms.
▪ We recommend the following guidelines for antibiotic treatment of acne in both hospital and general practice.
▪ Opinions vary as to how long antibiotic treatment should last, and periods differ between four and twenty-one days.
▪ Bacterial phlegmonous gastritis either responds to antibiotic treatment or results in death of the patient.
▪ In our patient all cultures were negative and antibiotic treatment had no effect.
▪ Reduced numbers of intestinal mucosal plasma cells have been reported, with a return to normal values after antibiotic treatment.
■ VERB
develop
▪ This should help slow the rate at which bacteria develop antibiotic resistance.
▪ Diseases are rapidly developing resistances to current antibiotics.
give
▪ Roos's team gave 108 children antibiotics twice a day for ten days.
▪ But the decision to give antibiotics to Yeltsin may have been precautionary and not indicative of his condition.
▪ We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics, which seemed to do the trick.
▪ And little Joan had grown morose and was under the care of a dermatologist who was giving her antibiotics.
▪ A urologist diagnosed prostatitis and gave him antibiotics, which improved things for a while.
▪ She gives me antibiotics for my heroin addiction.
▪ Their captors treated them well, built them a bed and gave Mr Winder antibiotics for a foot infection.
▪ A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections.
need
▪ This complete category of woe would suggest a bacterial throat infection needing antibiotics.
▪ No mystique need surround antibiotics because of their biological origin.
prescribe
▪ In more serious cases your doctor may prescribe you an oral antibiotic which will reduce the number of sore and inflamed spots.
▪ Yeast remedies are available over the counter, and a physician can prescribe antibiotics for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and others.
▪ Firstly, do not prescribe antibiotics if a non-antibiotic topical preparation will suffice.
▪ A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics.
▪ So he was prescribed a course of antibiotics.
▪ If your symptoms are severe, he or she may prescribe a course of antibiotics which are designed to kill the bacteria.
take
▪ The patient is now well and taking four antituberculous antibiotics and zidovudine.
▪ She went to the doctor, took antibiotics, accelerated her vitamins, got plenty of rest, but nothing worked.
▪ I was taken off the antibiotics, but the pain was intensifying each day.
▪ However, Seldane may cause heart problems if taken with certain antibiotics or anti-fungal drugs, warns Choi.
▪ Q I am taking a course of antibiotics and continually take anti-histamine tablets.
▪ Gardner missed the Washington road trip last week with a viral infection and is now taking antibiotics.
▪ No patients had taken antibiotics for at least one month before endoscopy.
treat
▪ Fire blight is treated with a streptomycin antibiotic during bloom.
▪ In some cases, these can be treated with antibiotics, which are useless against viral infections like influenza and colds.
▪ The disease can be treated with antibiotics.
use
▪ Cefotiame 2 g intravenously two times daily was used for antibiotic treatment of the cholecystitis.
▪ A simple, though possibly simplistic, explanation is that these organisms use antibiotics to protect their food supply.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A second explanation is that antibiotic production is rooted in the plant material that is the food source.
▪ But the decision to give antibiotics to Yeltsin may have been precautionary and not indicative of his condition.
▪ Fire blight is treated with a streptomycin antibiotic during bloom.
▪ Importantly, 27 patients carried two or more strains with different antibiotic resistances.
▪ Moreover, the problem of antibiotic resistance is global.
▪ They stated that basic equipment and medicines were in short supply and that antibiotics and analgesics were particularly scarce.
▪ Thirteen strains were resistant to three or more antibiotics.
▪ Treat the wasps with an antibiotic and, lo and behold, two genders reappear among the offspring.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
antibiotic

antibiotic \an`ti*bi*ot"ic\ n.

  1. A chemical substance derived from a mold or bacterium that kills microorganisms and cures infections.

    Syn: wonder drug

  2. any chemical substance having therapeutically useful antibacterial or antifungal activity; -- used commonly but loosely for synthetic as well as natural antimicrobial agents.

antibiotic

antibiotic \antibiotic\ adj.

  1. of or pertaining to an antibiotic.

  2. having antimicrobial activity; capable of killing microbes. [PJC] -- antibiotically, n.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
antibiotic

1894, "destructive to micro-organisms," from French antibiotique (c.1889), from anti- "against" (see anti-) + biotique "of (microbial) life," from Late Latin bioticus "of life" (see biotic). As a noun, first recorded 1941 in works of U.S. microbiologist Selman Waksman (1888-1973), discoverer of streptomycin. Earlier the adjective was used in a sense "not from living organisms" in debates over the origins of certain fossils.

Wiktionary
antibiotic

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 of bacteria and similar microorganisms.

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WordNet
antibiotic

adj. of or relating to antibiotic drugs

antibiotic

n. a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that kills microorganisms and cures infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs" [syn: antibiotic drug]

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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.