Synonyms for bacterium
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : bak-teer-ee-uh m |
Phonetic Transcription : bækˈtɪər i əm |
Top 10 synonyms for bacterium Other synonyms for the word bacterium
Définition of bacterium
Origin :- c.1848, singular of bacteria (q.v.).
- As in microbe : noun bacteria
- As in microorganism : noun germ
- As in cell : noun smallest living organism
- As in ferment : noun substance causing chemicals to split into simpler substances
- As in germ : noun microscopic organism, often causing illness
- Virus or bacterium, amoeba or fungus—whatever it was, it struck.
- Extract from : « Despoilers of the Golden Empire » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- The bacterium of splenic fever is called Bacillus Anthracis.
- Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
- At the end of three days there is not a bacterium to be found in it.
- Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
- The Bacterium termo (Fig. 30) is the smallest of the Infusoria.
- Extract from : « The Ocean World: » by Louis Figuier
- Bacterium, The same, termo (Mller), magnified magnified 600 times.
- Extract from : « The Ocean World: » by Louis Figuier
- Any carbohydrate in the broth is destroyed by the Bacterium coli.
- Extract from : « The Fundamentals of Bacteriology » by Charles Bradfield Morrey
- The best known and defined forms are Bacterium termo and Bact.
- Extract from : « Parasites » by T. Spencer Cobbold
- They are motionless and are occasionally found with the Bacterium termo in putrefying organic liquids.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- The cause proved to be a bacterium--that is, a small, rod-shaped plant.
- Extract from : « Makers of Modern Medicine » by James J. Walsh
- The former is in every way like a bacterium in its mode of self-division.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 » by Various
Antonyms for bacterium
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