Look up: antibiotic

1. antibiotic
   Type: Term Pronunciation: an′tē-bī-ot′ik Definitions: 1. Relating to antibiosis. 2. Prejudicial to life. 3. A soluble substance derived from a mold or bacterium that kills or inhibits the growth of other microorganisms.
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2. Antibiotic
   A class of natural and synthetic compounds that inhibit the growth of or kill other microorganisms. (See Antibiotic resistance, Bacteriocide, Bacteriostat.)
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3. antibiotic
   Substance used to inhibit the growth of micro-organisms, including bacteria and fungi.
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4. Antibiotic
   A chemical compound produced by one micro-organism which inhibits or kills other micro-organisms. In particular it is applied to isolated, purified and chemically modified substances isolated from cultured micro-organisms and employed for therapeutic purposes. Though most widely used to describe anti-bacterials, but scientifically 'antibiotics' include anti-fungal, anti-viral and anti-parasitic compounds of biological origin.
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5. antibiotic
   [adj] - of or relating to antibiotic drugs 2. [n] - a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that kills microorganisms and cures infections
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6. Antibiotic
   substance produced by or derived from bacteria which is able to inhibit or kill other bacteria.
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7. Antibiotic
   A drug that kills or reduces the growth of bacterial infection.
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8. Antibiotic
   Any drug, such as penicillin, produced by certain fungi, bacteria, and other organisms, which can inhibit the growth of (bacteriostatic), or destroy (bactericidal
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9. antibiotic
   Drug that kills or inhibits the growth of bacteria and fungi. The earliest antibiotics, the penicillins, came into use from 1941 and were quickly joined by chloramphenicol, the cephalosporins,...
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10. antibiotic
    Substance produced by, and obtained from, certain living cells (especially bacteria, yeasts and moulds), or an equivalent synthetic substance, which is biostatic or antibiotic drug noun 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`
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11. antibiotic
    (an″te-) (an″ti-bi-ot´ik) destructive of life. a chemical substance having the capacity, in dilute solution, to kill or inhibit growth of microorganisms. Antibiotics that are sufficiently nontoxic to the host are used as chemotherapeutic agents to treat infectious diseases of h...
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12. antibiotic
    chemical substance produced by a living organism, generally a microorganism, that is detrimental to other microorganisms.[33 related articles]
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