Definition of Microbic

1. Adjective. Of or involving or caused by or being microbes. "Microbial warfare"

Exact synonyms: Microbial
Partainyms: Microbe, Microbe
Derivative terms: Microbe

Definition of Microbic

1. a. Of or pertaining to a microbe.

Definition of Microbic

1. Adjective. microbial ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Microbic

1. microbe [adj] - See also: microbe

Medical Definition of Microbic

1. Of or pertaining to a microbe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microbic

microbenchmark
microbenchmarks
microbenthos
microbes
microbial
microbial RNase II
microbial collagenase
microbial genetics
microbial herbicides
microbial mining
microbial sensitivity tests
microbial vitamin
microbially
microbian
microbic (current term)
microbicidal
microbicide
microbicides
microbid
microbiochemical
microbiochemist
microbiochemists
microbiologic
microbiologic phenomena
microbiological
microbiological techniques
microbiologically
microbiologies
microbiologist

Literary usage of Microbic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"The microbic Diseases.—It seems a confusion of thought to the student of heredity to speak of the inheritance of any microbic disease. ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1898)
"Examination of the sputum alone does not afford sufficient proof of the microbic nature of the disease, as such micro-organisms as those mentioned arc ..."

3. The Principles of Heredity with Some Applications by George Archdall O'Brien Reid (1905)
"CHAPTER XIII THE ORIGINS OF ZYMOTIC DISEASES The microbes of disease are an infinitesimal portion of the total number of bacteria—Men acquire microbic ..."

4. Surgical Bacteriology by Nicholas Senn (1891)
"ON THE ALLEGED microbic ORIGIN OF TUMORS. SMALL, round-celled sarcoma resembles in ... He believes that cancer is allied to the group of specific microbic ..."

5. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"There are some microbic agents, however, which exist in the soil but probably do ... THE OCCURRENCE OF PATHOGENIC microbic AGENTS UPON AND IN THE BODIES OF ..."

6. Elements of Hygiene and Sanitation: Being Part II of "The Human Mechanism by Theodore Hough, William Thompson Sedgwick (1907)
"Sterilization is complete removal of microbic life. It may be effected by germicides, or by intense heat, such as boiling or burning, or by various other ..."

7. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1907)
"Take, for example, the pustules of acne, the sequence is as follows : Pustules. * microbic decomposition of the comedo. * Formation of the comedo. ..."

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