an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
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Spirillum
A genus of common motile microorganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. One species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.
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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.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.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…
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The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); gr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, inclu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is fe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.See Fever root, under Fever.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.
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