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Definition of Antimicrobic

1. Noun. An agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease.

2. Adjective. Capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms.

Definition of Antimicrobic

1. Adjective. antimicrobial ¹

2. Noun. Any antimicrobial agent ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antimicrobic

antimetabolites antimetaphorical antimetaphysical antimetastasis antimetastatic antimetathesis antimeter antimeters antimetric antimetrical

antimetropia antimicrobe antimicrobial antimicrobial spectrum antimicrobials antimicrobic (current term) antimicrobics antimicrotubule antimigraine antimilitant

antimilitarism antimilitarisms antimilitarist antimilitarists antimilitary antimilk antimine antiministerialist antiministerialists antiminority

Literary usage of Antimicrobic

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

1. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology by Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1901)
"It is necessary to draw a clear distinction between antimicrobic sera, ... antimicrobic sera possess bactericidal powers ; do they also possess antitoxic ..."

2. A Manual of general pathology for students by Sidney Martin (1903)
"The properties of an antimicrobic serum are different from those of an antitoxic serum ... antimicrobic serum protects an animal against the invasion of the ..."

3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"In antimicrobic sera we have two factors to consider, the first is a protoplasmic ... antimicrobic sera are not as efficient in treatment as antitoxic ones. ..."

4. Infectious Diseases by James Cornelius Wilson, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"The antimicrobic or Bacteriolytic Serums comprise a class of immune products whose activity is to be referred to the presence of bacteriolytic or other ..."

5. Birmingham Medical Review (1902)
"Secondly, there is the phenomenon of agglutination, sometimes called the Gruber-Durham phenomenon, which depends upon the fact that an antimicrobic serum ..."

6. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir (1899)
"The term antimicrobic is, therefore, conveniently applied to such a serum. In many instances an antimicrobic serum has little or no effect against the ..."

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