Antonyms for antimicrobialan·timi·cro·bial

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1. antimicrobialadjective

   Synonyms:
   antimicrobic

2. antimicrobialadjective

   tending to destroy or capable of destroying microbes

   Synonyms:
   antimicrobic

3. antimicrobialadjective

   inhibiting the growth of microbes

   Synonyms:
   antimicrobic

4. antimicrobialadjective

   preventing or counteracting the pathogenic action of microbes

   Synonyms:
   antimicrobic

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1. disinfectant, germicide, antimicrobic, antimicrobialadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   unhealthful

   Synonyms:
   germicide, antimicrobic, disinfectant

2. antimicrobial, antimicrobicadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   unhealthful

   Synonyms:
   antimicrobic

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. antimicrobial

   Synonyms:
   Anti-microbial

How to use antimicrobial in a sentence?

1. Louise Rollins-Smith:

   Amphibians, especially certain groups of frogs, produce and store large amounts of antimicrobial peptides in specialized granular glands in the skin, when the skin is injured or the frog is alarmed, they release large amounts of the peptides to protect the skin.

2. 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.

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. 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.

5. Elizabeth Pisani:

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

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