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Definition of Coccoid
1. Adjective. Spherical; like a coccus. "A coccoid microorganism"
Definition of Coccoid
1. Adjective. spherical, shaped like a coccus ¹
2. Noun. Something with a coccoid shape. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coccoid
1. a spherical cell or body [n -S]
Medical Definition of Coccoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Coccoid
Literary usage of Coccoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1922)
"Short and long rods with polar bodies and coccoid bodies in chains have been ...
The ovoid coccoid form in pairs is usually regarded as the type form. ..."
2. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"Post mortem, the organism soon rounds up into coccoid bodies, ... NA 1.40, the
coccoid form from egg- yolk cultures measures about 0.5 to 0.6 micron in ..."
3. The Etiology and Pathology of Typhus: Being the Main Report of the Typhus by Simeon Burt Wolbach, John Launcelot. Todd, Francis Winslow Palfrey (1922)
"Short and long rods with polar bodies and coccoid and bacillary bodies in short
... The ovoid coccoid form in pairs is usually regarded as the type form. ..."
4. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"... formation of coccoid bodies in vertebrate blood: C, infection of cells of tick
and formation of coccoid bodies; D, multiplication of coccoid bodies in ..."
5. Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal (1890)
"The next step in the process of vegetative development is the separation of one
of the pole or coccoid ends, which becomes free and for a moment is exactly ..."
6. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1913)
"Many of these forms are coccoid. We have noted also, as emphasized by Negri and
Mieremet, that in all old cultures coccoid forms predominate, and also that ..."
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