an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
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a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)
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an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
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A protein produced by the immune system to neutralize pathogens.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the br…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, gram-negative, aerobic, bacteria, occur.The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the…
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