antibiotic drug

Noun antibiotic drug has 1 sense

• antibiotic drug(n = noun.artifact) antibiotic - a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs"
has particulars: actinomycin, amphotericin, antimycin, antineoplastic antibiotic, azactam, aztreonam, bacitracin, carbomycin, cephaloglycin, kafocin, cephaloridine, cephalosporin, mefoxin, chloramphenicol, chloromycetin, aureomycin, chlortetracycline, cipro, ciprofloxacin, cycloserine, dihydrostreptomycin, doxorubicin, doxycycline, vibramycin, e-mycin, erythrocin, erythromycin, ethril, ilosone, pediamycin, garamycin, gentamicin, gramicidin, kanamycin, kantrex, lincocin, lincomycin, mitomycin, mutamycin, mycomycin, fradicin, neobiotic, neomycin, novobiocin, mycostatin, nystan, nystatin, hydroxytetracycline, oxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, terramycin, penicillin, polymyxin, primaxin, pyocyanase, pyocyanin, spectinomycin, streptomycin, streptothricin, subtilin, nebcin, tobramycin, tyrocidin, tyrocidine, tyrothricin, vancocin, vancomycin, viocin, viomycin
is a kind of antibacterial, antibacterial drug, bactericide