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Definition of the noun micro-organism
What does micro-organism mean as a name of something?
- any organism of microscopic size
- example: The disease was caused by a new micro-organism.
- domains: animal / animate being / beast / brute / creature / fauna; flora / plant / plant life
- lexical domain: Animals - nouns denoting animals
- alternative spelling: microorganism
- more generic words: being / organism = a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
- more specific terms:
- monad = a single-celled microorganism
- intestinal flora = harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning
- virus = ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic
- moneran / moneron = organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
- bacterium / bacteria = single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult
- microbe / germ / bug = a minute life form
- pathogen = any disease-producing agent
- protoctist = any of the unicellular protists
- protistan / protist = free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
- microflora = microscopic plants
- part: pilus = hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism
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Black’s Medical Dictionary (2017)
by Harvey Marcovitch
Micro-Organism. A very small, single-celled living organism that cannot usually be seen by the naked eye. The most important micro-organisms in medicine are those that cause disease. This 'pathogenic' group, however, forms only a small ...
A Dictionary of Ecology (2015)
by Michael Allaby
See also MICRO-ORGANISM. microbial (microbic) Of or pertaining to *micro-organisms. microbial ecology The *ecology of micro-organisms, including ...
by Paul G Smith
microbe Micro-organism. microbial film A biofilm. microbial growth ...
by Peter J. Gosling
Imprecise term for any MICRO-ORGANISM. microbiology ( microbiology) ...
by Martin H. Manser
tiny; one-millionth microsecond microbe micro-organism; germ microbiology study of micro-organisms microbiological microbiologist microchip tiny ...
A Library of Universal Knowledge and an Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language ...
micro-organism. must. always. be. found. in. this. disease. (2) When found it must be capable of being isolated and grown in pure culture. (3) On being inoculated into another animal or plant capable of having the disease, this organism must ...
Antiseptic : Any substance that kills or inhibits the growth of disease-causing micro-organism (a micro-organism capable of causing sepsis), but is essentially non-toxic to cells of the body. Antiserum : Blood serum containing specific antibodies ...
by Denise Tiran
microbe micro-organism, pathogenic bacterium. Adjmicrobial. microcephaly abnormally small head with ossified skull bones; baby will have learning difficulties.
by John William Ballantyne
Whichever micro-organism be the cause of any type of suppuration it usually gains entrance ...
by Diagram Group
micro-organism A very small organism, e.g. a protist or bacterium. mimicry The adoption by one species of the structure or behavior of another to gain protection. mitochondrion (pl. mitochondria) A rod-shaped organelle ...
A Dictionary of Dentistry (2010)
by Robert Ireland
See MICRO-ORGANISM. microbiologist n. A scientist or clinician who specializes in the field of * microbiology. microbiology n. The study of *micro-organisms, including * prokaryotes such as bacteria, ...
Encyclopaedia medica (1902)
by Chalmers Watson
Whichever micro-organism lie the cause of any type of suppuration it usually gains entrance ...
by Chris Brooker
acid-alcohol-fast adj in microbiology, describes a micro-organism which, when stained, is resistant to decolorization by alcohol as well as acid, e.g. Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Þ Ziehl–Neelsen technique.
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