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Definition of Antibiosis
1. Noun. An association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another.
Definition of Antibiosis
1. Noun. (biology) An association between organisms that is detrimental to one or more of them; especially that due to a metabolic substance produced by one of them ¹
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Definition of Antibiosis
1. [n -BIOSES]
Medical Definition of Antibiosis
1. A relationship between two species in which one species is actively harmed (as by the production of toxins by the harming species). Compare: symbiosis. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antibiosis
Literary usage of Antibiosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Household Bacteriology for Students in Domestic Sciences by Estelle Denis Buchanan, Robert Earle Buchanan (1913)
"The relationships are denoted by the terms symbiosis, antibiosis, ... antibiosis is
the reverse of the preceding, it is the condition that obtains when ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"On the other hand, there are curious instances of antibiosis, thus sarcoma may
disappear after erysipelas. When and Where to Disinfect—It naturally suggests ..."
3. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"From the viewpoint of the protein bacteria, the relation is antibiosis.
Another illustration of antibiosis is the acetic fermentation. ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"It seems not impossible that the biological relationships of these cases one to
another could be shown thus:— antibiosis. Symbiosis. ^ . ..."
5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1899)
"This state of affairs has been termed antibiosis. It seems not impossible that
the biological relationships of these cases one to another could be shown ..."
6. Veterinary Bacteriology: A Treatise on the Bacteria, Yeasts, Molds, and by Robert Earle Buchanan (1911)
"SYMBIOSIS, antibiosis. AND COMMENSALISM Two organisms that live together and ...
antibiosis is that condition which obtains when organisms prove inimical to ..."
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