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Definition of Intestinal flora
1. Noun. Harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning.
Medical Definition of Intestinal flora
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Intestinal Flora
Literary usage of Intestinal flora
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 by Olga Metchnikoff (1921)
"They were able to ascertain that certain microbes of the intestinal flora, such
as the bacillus coli and Welch's bacillus, produce poisons (phenol and ..."
2. Pathogenic Microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1917)
"Development of the intestinal flora.-—At birth the meconium is sterile unless
... Importance of the intestinal flora.—Whether the development of such an ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Again, Torrey writes: "Starchy foods all tended to effect a simplication of the
intestinal flora and an elimination of obligate putrefactive bacteria. ..."
4. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"These rather well-known facts in regard to the various types of intestinal flora
have been reviewed because they have an important bearing on the nature of ..."
5. Bacteriology, General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1921)
"The most important normal factor in determining the intestinal flora in health
is the chemical composition of the ingested food.7 Escherich,8 as far back as ..."
6. The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff (1908)
"... INHIBITING INTESTINAL PUTREFACTION The development of the intestinal flora in
man—Harmless- ness of sterilised food—Means of preventing the putrefaction ..."
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