What is meant by antibiotics and analgesics ?

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Antibiotics:- Chemical substances produced by micro organisms that inhibit the growth or even destroy micro organisms.

Ex: Penicillin

Analgesics:- They are chemical substances which reduce or abolish pain without causing impairment of consciousness, mental confusion, in co-ordination or paralysis or some other disturbances of nervous system.

Ex : Paracetamol

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