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Definition of Bacterium
1. Noun. (microbiology) 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; often considered to be plants.
Examples of category: Immune Reaction, Immune Response, Immunologic Response, Bioremediation, Resistance, Microphage, Peritrichous, Gram-positive, Gram-negative
Generic synonyms: Micro-organism, Microorganism
Specialized synonyms: Acidophil, Acidophile, Probiotic, Probiotic Bacterium, Probiotic Flora, Probiotic Microflora, Bacteroid, Eubacteria, Eubacterium, True Bacteria, Calymmatobacterium, Genus Calymmatobacterium, Francisella, Genus Francisella, Gonococcus, Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, Legionella, Legionella Pneumophilia, Nitrobacterium, Penicillin-resistant Bacteria, Pus-forming Bacteria, Rod, Diplococcus, Superbug
Category relationships: Microbiology
Derivative terms: Bacterial, Bacterial, Bacterioidal, Bacterise, Bacterize
Definition of Bacterium
1. n. A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algæ, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.
Definition of Bacterium
1. Noun. (microbiology) A single celled organism with no nucleus. ¹
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Definition of Bacterium
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Medical Definition of Bacterium
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Literary usage of Bacterium
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1. Manual of Bacteriology by Edgar March Crookshank (1890)
"bacterium of diphtheria of pigeons bacterium cholera: gallinarum bacterium ...
putidum bacterium fluorescens liquefaciens bacterium urea- bacterium aceti . ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"A Sugar bacterium. "A Sugar bacterium." By H. MARSHALL WARD, FRS, and J.
REYNOLDS GREEN, ... It consists of a bacterium associated with at least one yeast, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"BY inoculation into mice, a bacterium was isolated from one of a number of spleens
taken from swine-plague in Nebraska, which resembles the bacterium of ..."
4. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"These swellings never burst open, but bacterium Curi was recovered from the
interior three ... bacterium Curi was repeatedly recovered from these swellings, ..."
5. An Introduction to Bacterial Diseases of Plants by Erwin Frink Smith (1920)
"Cotton leaf inoculated from a "windowed" colony of bacterium mal- ... Green cotton
bolls accidentally attacked by bacterium malvacearum. Hothouse. ..."
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