Medical Definition of Micrococci
1. Plural of micrococcus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Micrococci
Literary usage of Micrococci
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"The blood examined during life or after death was found to contain micrococci
precisely similar to those found in the Ludington cases, ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1881)
"All swarmed with the micrococci and considerable numbers of bacilli and ...
Contains micrococci single and in couples, clusters and chains ; also bacilli. ..."
3. Photo-micrographs and how to Make Them by George Miller Sternberg (1883)
"micrococci abound in the pus from open wounds, and are also found in that drawn
from closed abscesses of an acute character. Milk, pus, and perspiration are ..."
4. Micro-organisms and Disease: An Introduction to the Study of Specific Micro by Edward Klein (1896)
"micrococci, like other granules when suspended in a fluid medium, show (Brownian)
... All micrococci, like other bacteria, possess a delicate membrane of ..."
5. Bacteria by Antoine Magnin, George Miller Sternberg (1883)
"micrococci from bottom of culture-solution (rabbit- bouillon) inoculated with
... micrococci from urine passed into a sterilized glass vessel and allowed to ..."
6. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"The chain-forming micrococci were present in the pus. Both the subcutaneous
abdominal lymphatic glands were the size of a millet seed and purulent; ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"In examining cases dying from malignant diphtheria, the authors found thit the
blood in all instances was more or less full of micrococci, some free, ..."
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