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antibiotically

antibiotically adverb: in terms of antibiotic effect.

Adverb

antibiotically (not comparable)

  1. In terms of antibiotic effect.
    • an antibiotically active compound
  2. By means of antibiotics.
    • antibiotically treated rats

Origin of antibiotically

From antibiotic + -ally.

Questions about antibiotically

What does antibiotically mean?
Antibiotically means in terms of antibiotic effect.
What part of speech is antibiotically?
Antibiotically is an adverb.

Words near antibiotically in the dictionary

  1. antibiosis
  2. antibiotherapies
  3. antibiotherapy
  4. antibiotic
  5. antibiotical
  6. antibiotically
  7. antibioticked
  8. antibiotics
  9. antibiotin
  10. antibiotype
  11. antibiotyped

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