The Abbreviation (MBC/MIC/MID) Stands for the Smallest Amount of a Drug

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Short Answer

The abbreviation (MBC/MIC/MID) stands for the smallest amount of a drug that will inhibit the growth and reproduction of a pathogen. (Be sure to use all capital letters.)

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Definitions:

Alarm Reaction

The initial stage in the stress response where the body readies itself for fight or flight, part of the General Adaptation Syndrome.

Fight-Or-Flight Reaction

A physiological response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.

Hans Selye

A Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist known for his research on the physiological responses of the body to stress and the development of the general adaptation syndrome model.

Walter Cannon

A physiologist known for coining the term "fight or flight response" and his work on homeostasis.