Word Meanings - ANTIBACTERIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases. Opposed to the bacterial theory of disease.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• BACTERIAL
  Of or pertaining to bacteria.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• SERUM-THERAPY
  The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.
• INIMICALITY
  The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness.
• BACTERIA
  See BACTERIUM
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• INIMICAL
  1. Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity. 2. Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• SERUM
  The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc. A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum. Blood serum, the pale yellowish fluid
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• GERM THEORY
  The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis. 2. The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs.