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PRONUNCIATION OF BACTERICIDAL

bactericidal  [bækˌtɪərɪˈsaɪdəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BACTERICIDAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bactericidal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BACTERICIDAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bactericide

A bactericide or bacteriocide, sometimes abbreviated Bcidal, is a substance that kills bacteria. Bactericides are disinfectants, antiseptics, or antibiotics.

Definition of bactericidal in the English dictionary

The definition of bactericidal in the dictionary is used to kill bacteria.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BACTERICIDAL


acaricidal
əˌkærɪˈsaɪdəl
apsidal
æpˈsaɪdəl
biocidal
ˌbaɪəʊˈsaɪdəl
fratricidal
ˌfrætrɪˈsaɪdəl
fungicidal
ˌfʌndʒɪˈsaɪdəl
genocidal
ˌdʒenəˈsaɪdəl
germicidal
ˌdʒɜːmɪˈsaɪdəl
herbicidal
ˌhɜːbɪˈsaɪdəl
homicidal
ˌhɒmɪˈsaɪdəl
insecticidal
ɪnˌsektɪˈsaɪdəl
larvicidal
ˌlɑːvɪˈsaɪdəl
ovicidal
ˌəʊvɪˈsaɪdəl
pesticidal
ˌpɛstɪˈsaɪdəl
seidel
ˈsaɪdəl
sidle
ˈsaɪdəl
spermicidal
ˌspɜːmɪˈsaɪdəl
suicidal
ˌsuːɪˈsaɪdəl
trypanocidal
ˌtrɪpənəˈsaɪdəl
tyrannicidal
tɪˌrænɪˈsaɪdəl
virucidal
ˌvaɪrəˈsaɪdəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BACTERICIDAL

bacteria
bacteria bed
bacterial
bacterial ghost
bacterial plaque
bacterially
bacterian
bacteric
bactericidally
bactericide
bacterin
bacteriocin
bacterioid
bacteriol.
bacteriologic
bacteriological
bacteriological warfare
bacteriologically
bacteriologist
bacteriology

WORDS THAT END LIKE BACTERICIDAL

algicidal
bridal
deicidal
ecocidal
feticidal
filicidal
infanticidal
loculicidal
matricidal
molluscicidal
nematicidal
nematocidal
parasiticidal
parricidal
patricidal
prolicidal
regicidal
sororicidal
spermatocidal
sporicidal
viricidal

Synonyms and antonyms of bactericidal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bactericidal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BACTERICIDAL

Find out the translation of bactericidal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bactericidal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bactericidal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

杀菌
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bactericida
570 millions of speakers

English

bactericidal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जीवाणुनाशक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جراثيم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бактерицидное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bactericida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীবাণুনাশক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bactéricide
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bakteria
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bakterizide
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

殺菌性の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

살균
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bactericidal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

diệt khuẩn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நுண்ணுயிர்க்கொல்லல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सूक्ष्म जंतूचा नाश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bakterisit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

battericida
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bakteriobójcze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бактерицидну
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bactericid
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βακτηριοκτόνο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kiemdodende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

baktericid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bakteriedrepende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bactericidal

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BACTERICIDAL»

The term «bactericidal» is regularly used and occupies the 76.674 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BACTERICIDAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «bactericidal» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «bactericidal» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bactericidal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACTERICIDAL»

Discover the use of bactericidal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bactericidal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Advances in Phagocyte Bactericidal Dysfunction Research and ...
Advances in Phagocyte Bactericidal Dysfunction Research and Treatment / 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyPaperT'V' that delivers timely, authoritative, and intensively focused information about Phagocyte Bactericidal Dysfunction in a compact ...
‎2012
2
Manual of Clinical Problems in Infectious Disease
This value is referred to as the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). To determine the MBC, a broth dilution system is used. Tubes containing a broth medium, a standard bacterial inoculum, and varying concentrations of an antimicrobial ...
Nelson Murray Gantz, 2006
3
The Quinolones
In order to measure bactericidal activity, the minimum bactericidal concentration ( MBC) to the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) ratio is utilized. When this ratio is less than or equal to 2, an antibiotic generally exhibits bactericidal activity.
Vincent T. Andriole, 2000
4
Phylogenetic Development of Vertebrate Immunity
Table 1 compares the bactericidal antibody response of hagfish to EMB-1 and S. typhosa antigens. Since these animals were used to obtain large amounts of blood, bleedings were only attempted at 7-day intervals after the primary and ...
‎1972
5
Disinfection, Sterilization, and Preservation
Collins (1955), in his work with Pseudomonas fragi, showed that Ca(OClh at 3 ppm available chlorine produced a 99.99% kill in 4 minutes at 2 PC, but, on average, in 10 minutes at 4.4°C. The effects of temperature on the bactericidal action of ...
Seymour Stanton Block, 2001
6
The Journal of Immunology
The results of these tests may be stated as follows: Normal serum shows a considerable bactericidal action against the dysentery bacilli of group I and II, but no inhibiting action can be discovered in the doses smaller than 0.1 cc. Against ...
7
Transactions of the Association of American Physicians
cholera and in typhoid fever appear in the greatest amounts in the spleen, lymphatic glands, and bone-marrow, and inasmuch as immunization in typhoid fever and in cholera does not mean antitoxic but bactericidal effects, we were further ...
8
Third Inter-American Congress on Brucellosis: November 6-10, ...
The effect of dilution of the serum upon its bactericidal power for Br. abortus was studied by a method allowing restoration of complement activity. When tested by this method, the titer of heat-stable bactericidal antibody was 1:42,000 in 1 ...
‎1950
9
Endotoxin in Health and Disease
A recombinant aminoterminal fragment of bactericidal/permeability- increasing protein (rBPI23) inhibits CD14-mediated LPS-induced endothelial adherence of human neutro- phils. Shock 1993; 1:81-86. 26. Weiss J, Elsbach P, Shu C, et al.
Helmut Brade, 1999
10
Development of New Antituberculosis Drugs
Early bactericidal activity of paromomycin [aminosidine] in patients with smear- positive pulmonary tuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2000;44:3285-7. [ 12] Donald PR, Sirgel FA, Venter A, Smit E, Parkin DP, Van de Wal BW et al.
W. W. Yew, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BACTERICIDAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bactericidal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Antimicrobial activity of synthetic cationic peptides and lipopeptides …
Thus, acylation enhanced the bactericidal activity of the parental peptides and resulted in lipopeptides that were uniformly bactericidal at their ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jul 15»
2
Investors Watch List: Marathon Patent Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA …
VIBATIV is a bactericidal, once-daily antibiotic with in vitro potency and a dual mechanism of action against Gram-positive bacteria, including ... «Stock Transcript, Jul 15»
3
Density-dependent adaptive resistance allows swimming bacteria to …
Growth was never observed, demonstrating that kanamycin was indeed present at bactericidal concentrations for the full duration of the ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
Using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to Assess Nanoparticle …
(2013) proved the presence of bactericidal effects on exposure to 5 mg/L Ag nanoparticles for 48 hour. The findings also suggested that less or ... «AZoNano.com, Jul 15»
5
Vaginal colonisation by probiotic lactobacilli and clinical outcome in …
... by producing bacteriostatic and bactericidal substances and through competitive exclusion [14], [15]. The predominant vaginal Lactobacillus ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
6
Today's Hot List: EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), Total System …
VIBATIV is a bactericidal, once-daily antibiotic with in vitro potency and a dual mechanism of action against Gram-positive bacteria, including ... «Stock Transcript, Jul 15»
7
Antibacterial Drugs Market Expected to Reach USD 38.9 Billion …
These agents possess bactericidal activity which target various parts of bacterial physiology such as protein synthesis, cell wall synthesis, ... «CSO Australia, Jul 15»
8
Theravance Biopharma Announces Marketing Authorization for …
VIBATIV is a bactericidal, once-daily, injectable lipoglycopeptide antibiotic with in vitro potency and a dual mechanism of action whereby ... «SYS-CON Media, Jun 15»
9
Global air treatment product market analysis and outlook to 2020 …
The various equipment used in air treatment product include air filters, absorbent filters, air washers, ultraviolet bactericidal lamps, humidifying ... «WhaTech, Jun 15»
10
What Are Antibiotics?
Some antibiotics are bactericidal, meaning that they kill bacteria, while others are bacteriostatic, meaning that they prevent bacteria from ... «Everyday Health, Jun 15»

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