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metaphylactic

metaphylactic adjective: relating to metaphylaxis.

Adjective

metaphylactic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to metaphylaxis.
    • Additionally, cattle classified as having high risk of developing BRD, or any that were exhibiting signs of systemic illness or fever also received metaphylactic or therapeutic AMDs during initial processing; lower risk cattle and cattle without clinical BRD were not treated with AMDs at arrival.2015 December 4, “Antimicrobial Resistance in Escherichia coli Recovered from Feedlot Cattle and Associations with Antimicrobial Use”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Words formed from metaphylactic

Questions about metaphylactic

What does metaphylactic mean?
Metaphylactic means relating to metaphylaxis.
What part of speech is metaphylactic?
Metaphylactic is an adjective.

Words near metaphylactic in the dictionary

  1. metaphrast
  2. metaphrastic
  3. metaphrastical
  4. metaphrastically
  5. metaphrasts
  6. metaphylactic
  7. metaphylactically
  8. metaphylatic
  9. metaphylaxis
  10. metaphyseal
  11. metaphyses

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