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antibiotics

noun as in medicine

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While there are a couple of antibiotics that usually work, if they are overused they, too, may cease to be effective.

The more antibiotics are used inappropriately, the greater the risk of bacteria growing resistant to them.

But in all cases, the appropriate course of antibiotics has been curative.

But it remains a curable illness, and one that does not require course after course of antibiotics.

Thankfully, there are antibiotics I can prescribe that usually work against these infections.

Only the new antibiotics he had taken along, had kept the gangrene from killing him.

Marin pumped them full of antibiotics, bandaged their wounds, fed them through their veins, and shot them into sleep.

The air-regenerating apparatus had been developed from the aeriating culture-tanks in which antibiotics were grown on Earth.

And with Piper warehouses back on Earth full of old, useless antibiotics that they can't sell for peanuts?

Right now, for instance, strains of bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to antibiotics, such as: wonder drug, penicillin, amoxicillin, tetracycline, erythromycin, and streptomycin.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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