Bacteriostatic

Definition: Bacteriostatic

Bacteriostatic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis.

Specialty Definitions: Bacteriostatic

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Inhibiting the growth of bacteria without destruction. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	The property of any substance inhibiting the growth of bacteria without killing them. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	1. inhibiting the growth or multiplication of bacteria. 2. an agent that inhibits the growth or multiplication of bacteria. (references)
Medicine	Substance inhibiting growth of bacteria but not killing them. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Bacteriostatic

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bacteriostatic antibiotics hamper the growth of bacteria by

interfering with bacteria protein production,
interfering with bacteria DNA production
interfering with bacteria cellular metabolism

Bacteriostatic antibiotics inhibit growth while bactericidal antibiotics kill bacteria.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bacteriostatic."

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Crosswords: Bacteriostatic

Specialty definitions using "bacteriostatic": Antibiotics, Lactam ♦ Erythromycin Estolate, Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate ♦ Triclosan. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bacteriostatic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Trade	Kenya	Manufacturers are required to indicate on the labels of all consumables both the date of manufacture and expiry date Labeling for pharmaceutical products should include: therapeutically active substances, inactive ingredients, name and percentage of any bactericidal or bacteriostatic agent, expiry date, batch number, any warnings or precautions, name and business address of manufacturer, and registration number of the product. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bacteriostatic

"Bacteriostatic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bacteriostatic" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bacteriostatic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bacteriostatic	9
bacteriostatic water	7
bacteriostatic filter water	3
bacteriostatic conditioner water	3
sodium chloride bacteriostatic	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bacteriostatic

Language		Translations for "bacteriostatic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		制菌作�"�. (various references)

Danish		bakteriostatisk/bakteriostase, bakteriostatisk stof, bakteriostatisk, bakteriostatikum. (various references)

Dutch		bacteriostaticum. (various references)

Finnish		bakteriostaattinen, bakteriostaatti. (various references)

French		bactériostatique. (various references)

German		bakteriostatisch. (various references)

Greek		βακτηριοστατικός, βακτηριοστατικό. (various references)

Italian		batteriostatico. (various references)

Korean		세� 발육 � �지 (Bacteriolysis). (various references)

Pig Latin		acteriostaticbay.(various references)

Portuguese		bacteriostático, bacteriostático. (various references)

Spanish		bacteriostático. (various references)

Swedish		bakteriostatiskt ämne, bakteriostatisk, bakteriehämmande. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bacteriostatic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-e-i-i-o-r-s-t-t-t"
	-2 letters: bacteriostat.
	-4 letters: acrobatics, aerobatics, atrocities.
	-5 letters: abattoirs, acrobatic, aerobatic, ascorbate, bacterias, boracites, brattices, brattiest, cabrettas, eroticist, isotactic, obstetric, scabietic, steatitic, tractates.
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