(microbiology, virology) A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.

Something that eats, or consumes.

plural of phage

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

plural of phage therapy

(medicine) Synonym of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis

A phage whose genome contains a plasmid that can be removed during the infection of a host with a second, "helper" phage.

(medicine) phagedenic

plural of phagedena

(medicine) Spreading, obstinate ulceration.