antibiotic

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I - noun

a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections
- when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs
• Syn:
antibiotic drug
• Hypernyms:
antibacterial, antibacterial drug, bactericide
• Hyponyms:
actinomycin, amphotericin, antimycin, antineoplastic antibiotic, aztreonam,
Azactam, bacitracin, carbomycin, cephaloglycin, Kafocin, cephaloridine,
cephalosporin, Mefoxin, chloramphenicol, Chloromycetin, chlortetracycline, Aureomycin,
ciprofloxacin, Cipro, cycloserine, dihydrostreptomycin, doxorubicin, doxycycline,
Vibramycin, erythromycin, Erythrocin, E-Mycin, Ethril, Ilosone,
Pediamycin, gentamicin, Garamycin, gramicidin, kanamycin, Kantrex,
lincomycin, Lincocin, mitomycin, Mutamycin, mycomycin, neomycin,
fradicin, Neobiotic, novobiocin, nystatin, Mycostatin, Nystan,
oxytetracycline, hydroxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, Terramycin, penicillin, polymyxin,
Primaxin, pyocyanase, pyocyanin, spectinomycin, streptomycin, streptothricin,
subtilin, tobramycin, Nebcin, tyrocidine, tyrocidin, tyrothricin,
vancomycin, Vancocin, viomycin, Viocin

II - adjective

of or relating to antibiotic drugs (Freq. 1)