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A drug that kills bacteria and still can't convince you to finish the bottle.
means A medicine that kills or stops the growth of bacteria causing infection in the body.
from Built from Greek anti- ('against') plus bios ('life'), via 'antibiosis' — a 19th-century biological term for one organism killing another. The word got its modern medical sense in the mid-20th century, popularized around the discovery and naming of penicillin-era drugs, when scientists needed a term for compounds, often made by fungi or bacteria themselves, that fight off other microbes.
- origin
- from a mold Fleming forgot to clean up
- does nothing for
- viruses, colds, or your impatience
- resistance risk
- bacteria evolve faster than we invent new ones
- overuse source
- half of all antibiotics go to livestock