Word.ws English Dictionary

bacteriostases

bacteriostases is the plural of bacteriostasis.

Meaning of bacteriostasis

Noun

bacteriostasis (countable and uncountable, plural bacteriostases)

  1. A phase in which microbial organisms are prevented from undergoing further cell growth, without being actually killed.

Questions about bacteriostases

What is bacteriostases the plural of?
Bacteriostases is the plural of bacteriostasis.

Words near bacteriostases in the dictionary

  1. bacteriosome
  2. bacteriosomes
  3. bacteriospermia
  4. bacteriosponge
  5. bacteriosponges
  6. bacteriostases
  7. bacteriostasis
  8. bacteriostat
  9. bacteriostatic
  10. bacteriostatically
  11. bacteriostaticity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bacteriostases (page history and authors); bacteriostasis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bacteriostases.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bacteriostases. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.