antibiotic

Speech parts

1. antibiotic - Noun

2. antibiotic - Adjective

Meaning

of or relating to antibiotic drugs

a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

antibiotic drug bactericidal pure drug medicine clean medication remedy serum sterile preventive sanitary antiseptic antidote aseptic
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Antonyms

bacillus taken disease diabetes impure affected
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Hypernyms

antibacterial bactericide antibacterial drug

Hyponyms

penicillin erythromycin neomycin nystatin cipro cephalosporin

Related terms

abiogenetic antibiosis abiotic xenobiotic gnotobiotic

Phrases with the word

antibiotic treatment antibiotic ointment antibiotic therapy antibiotic activity

Examples

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. William A. Dembski

Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic. Joel Fuhrman

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work. Thomas Szasz

when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs Source: Internet

A bacterial lawn used in antibiotic resistance testing. Source: Internet

About 9% of patients taking none of the drugs died in the hospital, versus 16% on chloroquine, 18% on hydroxychloroquine, 22% on chloroquine plus an antibiotic, and 24% on hydroxychloroquine plus an antibiotic. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

antibioresistance antibiosis antibiotherapy antibiotic activity antibiotic drug antibiotic ointment