Definitions for Antimicrobial
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. disinfectant, germicide, antimicrobic, antimicrobialadjective

   an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease

2. antimicrobial, antimicrobicadjective

   capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms

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1. antimicrobialnoun

   an agent that destroys microbes, inhibits their growth, or prevents or counteracts their pathogenic action

2. antimicrobialadjective

   tending to destroy or capable of destroying microbes

3. antimicrobialadjective

   inhibiting the growth of microbes

4. antimicrobialadjective

   preventing or counteracting the pathogenic action of microbes

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1. Antimicrobial

   An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or stops their growth. Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped according to the microorganisms they act primarily against. For example, antibiotics are used against bacteria, and antifungals are used against fungi. They can also be classified according to their function. Agents that kill microbes are microbicides, while those that merely inhibit their growth are called bacteriostatic agents. The use of antimicrobial medicines to treat infection is known as antimicrobial chemotherapy, while the use of antimicrobial medicines to prevent infection is known as antimicrobial prophylaxis. The main classes of antimicrobial agents are disinfectants (non-selective agents, such as bleach), which kill a wide range of microbes on non-living surfaces to prevent the spread of illness, antiseptics (which are applied to living tissue and help reduce infection during surgery), and antibiotics (which destroy microorganisms within the body). The term "antibiotic" originally described only those formulations derived from living microorganisms but is now also applied to synthetic agents, such as sulfonamides or fluoroquinolones. Though the term used to be restricted to antibacterials (and is often used as a synonym for them by medical professionals and in medical literature), its context has broadened to include all antimicrobials. Antibacterial agents can be further subdivided into bactericidal agents, which kill bacteria, and bacteriostatic agents, which slow down or stall bacterial growth. In response, further advancements in antimicrobial technologies have resulted in solutions that can go beyond simply inhibiting microbial growth. Instead, certain types of porous media have been developed to kill microbes on contact.

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1. antimicrobial

   An antimicrobial is a substance, such as an antibiotic or disinfectant, that has the ability to destroy or inhibit the growth of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites. This substance can be naturally occurring or synthetic and is used in medicine and other industries to prevent or treat infections and diseases caused by these microorganisms.

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1. Antimicrobial

   An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth. Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped according to the microorganisms they act primarily against. For example, antibacterials are used against bacteria and antifungals are used against fungi. They can also be classed according to their function. Antimicrobials that kill microbes are called microbicidal; those that merely inhibit their growth are called microbiostatic. Disinfectants such as bleach are non-selective antimicrobials. Use of substances with antimicrobial properties is known to have been common practice for at least 2000 years. Ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks used specific molds and plant extracts to treat infection. More recently, microbiologists such as Louis Pasteur and Jules Francois Joubert observed antagonism between some bacteria and discussed the merits of controlling these interactions in medicine. In 1928, Alexander Fleming became the first to discover a natural antimicrobial fungus known as penicillium rubens. He named the substance extracted from the fungus penicillin and in 1942 it was successfully used to treat a streptococcus infection. Penicillin also proved successful in the treatment of many other infectious diseases such as gonorrhea, strep throat and pneumonia, which were potentially fatal to patients up until then.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Antimicrobial in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Antimicrobial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Antimicrobial in a Sentence

1. Elizabeth Pisani:

   Sub-therapeutic dosing, by definition, contributes to antimicrobial resistance, bugs are mutating all the time.

2. Pamela Ruegg:

   They wouldn't sponsor me as a speaker because they're mad at me, my message is we have to reduce the amount of antimicrobial use and use it properly.

3. Marco Cavaleri:

   We need alternatives to the current armamentarium of antibiotics and we want to see more development activity in this area, in light of the increase in antimicrobial resistance and the lack of new antibiotics, it is important to open up the discussion.

4. Todd Ricketts:

   In Chris DeJong pools, the water is always 90 degrees so kids don't feel cold. And Chris DeJong use antimicrobial carpeting on the floors to prevent falls and reduce noise.

5. Matthew Fisher:

   What’s changing is that more people that are exposed have those high risk factors. We have aging populations, and we were using a lot of chemicals in the environment which are forcing fungi to adapt, and our clinical antifungals are being degraded by antimicrobial resistance.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Antimicrobial
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Antimicrobial
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Antimicrobial