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Definition of Microorganism
1. Noun. Any organism of microscopic size.
Generic synonyms: Being, Organism
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna, Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Specialized synonyms: Monad, Intestinal Flora, Virus, Moneran, Moneron, Bacteria, Bacterium, Bug, Germ, Microbe, Pathogen, Protoctist, Protist, Protistan, Microflora
Terms within: Pilus
Examples of category: Virulence, Virulency, Transmitter, Vector, Bacteremia, Bacteriaemia, Bacteriemia, Highly Infective, Motile, Immotile, Nonmotile
Definition of Microorganism
1. Noun. (microbiology) An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye, ''especially'' a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of microorganism) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Microorganism
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Microorganism
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Literary usage of Microorganism
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1. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"THE DEFENSIVE MECHANISM OF THE microorganism IN RELATION TO INFECTION After ...
The capsule may be quickly lost when the microorganism is cultivated on ..."
2. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1913)
"EXPERIMENTS ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE microorganism CAUSING EPIDEMIC POLIOMYELITIS
BY SIMON FLEXNER, MD, AND HIDEYO NOGUCHI, MD (From the Laboratories of ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Infection and Immunity: Including Chapters by Charles Edmund Simon (1912)
"Evidently this must depend upon one of two factors (so., an interaction between
the two), viz., the nature of the microorganism and the resistance which the ..."
4. Laboratory Manual in General Microbiology by Dept. of Bacteriology and Public Health, Michigan, Michigan State University, East Lansing Agricultural College, Dept. of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1916)
"ANIMAL INOCULATION IN BACTERIOLOGY FOR DETERMINATION OF THE IDENTITY OF A
microorganism, ITS PATHOGENICITY OR VIRULENCE, OR FOR PRODUCTION OF IMMUNITY ..."
5. American Medicine (1911)
"The microorganism of Typhus Fever.—Another of the infectious diseases is yielding
up its secrets to the persistence of the investigator, says the Medical ..."
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