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Antimicrobial

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

📖 Definitions of "Antimicrobial"

noun
  1. 1

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

adjective
  1. 1

    (pharmaceutical effect) tending to destroy or capable of destroying microbes

  2. 2

    (pharmaceutical effect) inhibiting the growth of microbes

  3. 3

    (pharmaceutical effect) preventing or counteracting the pathogenic action of microbes

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