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.A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.See Bacterium.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.Alt. of Bacteroidal
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.of Coccus
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus.
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.A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the…
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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An acute fever.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.
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.A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
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.A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel gu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, common, motile, microorganisms, spirobacteria.
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