phage therapy

noun

The therapeutic use of lytic bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections.

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Meanings

nounphage therapy (countable and uncountable, plural phage therapies)

plural phage therapies

  1. countableuncountablemedicineThe therapeutic use of lytic bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections.
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