Synonyms for antibiotic
ˌæn tɪ baɪˈɒt ɪk, -bi-, ˌæn ti-, -taɪ-an·tibi·ot·ic

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1. antibiotic, antibiotic drugadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   antibiotic drug

2. antibioticadjective

   of or relating to antibiotic drugs

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1. List of paraphrases for "antibiotic":

   antibiotics, antimicrobial

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:2.8 / 5 votes

1. antibiotic

   Synonyms:
   Anti-biotic
   

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1. Lauri Hicks:

   Doctors are often under a lot of time pressure, so doctors can also provide resources to guide patients, like hand-outs and, if appropriate, websites that have more information about appropriate antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance( e.g. www.cdc.gov/getsmart).

2. Thomas Szasz:

   The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

3. Jerome Adams:

   We know that there are over 150 million patient visits every year to a doctor or urgent care clinic for some sort of upper respiratory infection – things like sore throat, cold, sinus and ear infections. And of those visits, we know that 47 million courses of antibiotics are prescribed for infections that don’t need an antibiotic.

4. Rachael Jonrow:

   If your life has not already been touched by an antibiotic resistant disease, it probably will be at some point.

5. Freya Harrison:

   I still can't quite believe how well this 1,000-year-old antibiotic actually seems to be working, when we got the first results we were just utterly dumbfounded. We did not see this coming at all.