antibiotic
has definitions from the fields of medicine,pharmacology
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[ adjective ] of or relating to antibiotic drugs
Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)It is possible that certain mutational forms may be produced such_as antibiotic resistant strains . |
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[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that kills microorganisms and cures infections
Synonyms Examples "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs" Related terms medicine antibacterial chlortetracycline oxytetracycline antimycin cephalosporin carbomycin cephaloridine chloramphenicol antineoplastic_antibiotic amphotericin mycomycin neomycin chloroquine cephaloglycin dihydrostreptomycin doxorubicin doxycycline erythromycin gentamicin gramicidin lincomycin ciprofloxacin cycloserine bacitracin novobiocin nystatin aztreonam kanamycin penicillin polymyxin pyocyanase pyocyanin mitomycin spectinomycin primaxin streptomycin streptothricin subtilin tetracycline tyrocidine tyrothricin vancomycin viomycin nebcin actinomycin |
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