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bacteria
  1. (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
  2. (US, proscribed) Alternative form of bacterium.
  3. (pejorative) A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Certain bacteria in contaminated food or water can release a toxin that causes your intestinal cells to secrete salt and water.”
      “In addition, toxigenic bacteria that have been implicated in sudden infant death syndrome do reside in used infant mattresses.”
      “Some types of bacteria release poisons called toxins while they are multiplying in food.”
bacteriotoxin
  1. Any toxin produced by a bacterium
  2. Any material that is toxic to bacteria
bacteriohopanepolyol
  1. Any of a group of bacterial pentacyclic triterpenoids found in the lipid cell membranes of many bacteria, frequently used as biomarkers in sedimentary rocks.
  2. Synonyms:
bacteriochlorophyll
  1. (biology) A photosynthetic pigment occurring in various phototrophic bacteria, related to the chlorophylls.
bacteriology
  1. (biology) The scientific study of bacteria, especially in relation to disease and agriculture.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Music is acquiring a technology as confusing and as extensive as bacteriology.”
      “All major aspects of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, bacteriology, diagnosis, and antimicrobial treatment were reviewed by this group.”
      “This article briefly examines the pathogenesis and bacteriology of UTIs during pregnancy, as well as patient-oriented outcomes.”
bacteriocin
  1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of antibiotic toxins, produced by some bacteria, that target closely related bacteria
  2. Examples:
    1. “These peptides did not show bacteriocin activity when assayed individually.”
      “A composition for enhancing the performance of a lanthionine-containing bacteriocin, comprising a lanthionine-containing bacteriocin other than nisin and subtilin, characterized in that it further comprises a chelating agent.”
      “Six of the strains did not produce bacteriocin.”
bacterium
  1. (microbiology) A single celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “When exposed to an antigen, that is a virus or a bacterium, the body produces antibodies.”
      “Tetanus, also called lockjaw, is a disease with uncontrolled muscle spasms caused by a bacterium in a local wound.”
      “A new acetogenic bacterium, Clostridium ljungdahlii, was named in recognition of Dr. Ljungdahl's groundbreaking research into acetogenesis.”
bacterioferritin
  1. (biochemistry) An oligomeric protein, similar to ferritin, found in various bacteria
bacteriocyte
  1. (biology) A modified adipocyte, in some insects, containing symbiotic bacteria
bacteriotropin
  1. An antibody that makes a specific bacterium more susceptible to phagocytosis
bacteriochlorin
  1. A form of chlorin, of bacterial origin, that has two pyrrole groups in the main ring
bacteria
  1. (medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Certain bacteria in contaminated food or water can release a toxin that causes your intestinal cells to secrete salt and water.”
      “In addition, toxigenic bacteria that have been implicated in sudden infant death syndrome do reside in used infant mattresses.”
      “Some types of bacteria release poisons called toxins while they are multiplying in food.”
bactericidin
  1. Any antibody that, together with a complement, can kill bacteria.
bacterivore
  1. (biology) Any organism that ingests bacteria either as food or as a source of energy
bacteriome
  1. (biology) An organelle, in some insects, containing bacteriocytes
bacterioagglutinin
  1. (medicine) An antibody which causes agglutination of bacteria.
bacterialization
  1. The treatment of a crop with bacteria in order to promote growth, nutrient uptake etc.
bacteriolysin
  1. Any antibody that causes lysis of the cells of a bacterium
bacteriologist
  1. A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In short he is a bacteriologist and microbiologist first who happens to have found his way to a specialism in food contamination.”
      “What limits to the frightfulness yet to be discovered by chemist and bacteriologist?”
      “Even in this case it is far better for two persons, clinician and bacteriologist, to work together.”
bacterivory
  1. (biology) The ingestion of bacteria as food or as an energy supply
bacteraemia
  1. The medical condition of having bacteria in the bloodstream.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the medical setting, one study asked doctors to judge the probability that medical inpatients had bacteraemia.”
      “However, most young children who develop bacteraemia are immunologically intact.”
      “The primary manifestations of E. sakazakii infection in infants, i.e., meningitis and bacteraemia, tend to vary with age.”
bacterin
  1. a suspension of killed or attenuated bacteria for use as a vaccine
  2. Examples:
    1. “To assess the potential of OspC to elicit Ab in the context of a bacterin vaccine, OspC production in strains cultivated in vitro was assessed.”
      “Use of fusobacterium necrophorum isolates for the manufacture of a bacterin for treating cattle and sheep to prevent foot rot.”
      “Mild, transient soft tissue swelling, which may occur at the injection site, is a typical response following subcutaneous vaccination with a whole-cell bacterin.”
bacterioplankton
  1. (biology) The bacterial component of marine plankton
  2. Examples:
    1. “The amount of bacterial cells imported via the inlets in relation to bacterioplankton cells produced in the epilimnion of the lakes was also determined.”
      “At depths where no primary production occurs, zooplankton and bacterioplankton instead consume organic material sinking from more productive surface waters above.”
bactericide
  1. Any substance that kills bacteria, especially one that is otherwise harmless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Discourage the disease next spring by applying a streptomycin antibiotic or copper with a bactericide while the tree is in bloom.”
      “Yes, not actually eating, but the alpha-streptococci emits a type of bactericide which kills the pathogenic bacteria.”
      “They are undoubtedly the finest natural bactericide that because of their potency can be dangerous in the wrong hands.”
bacteroidete
  1. Any bacterium of the phylum Bacteroidetes
bacteriophage
  1. (microbiology, virology) A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A bacteriophage is a virus that attacks bacteria but which is generally harmless to human beings.”
      “A bacteriophage is a virus that only infects bacteria, they don't infect any human tissue.”
      “We saw in the previous sections that packaged bacteriophage capsids are pressurized with pressures as high as 60 atm.”
bacteriophytochrome
  1. (biochemistry) Any form of phytochrome found in a bacterium
bacterioscopy
  1. The use of microscopy to study bacteria
  2. Examples:
    1. Bacterioscopy, histopathology of freshly prepared cytology smears and virological investigations were used routinely in diagnosing the infectious agents.”
bacteriopheophytin
  1. (biochemistry) Any pheophytin of bacterial origin
bacteriotherapy
  1. (medicine) Any therapeutic use of bacteria
bacteriuria
  1. (pathology) The presence of bacteria in the urine
  2. Examples:
    1. “The specificity of the dipstick test makes it useful for identifying hematuria, pyuria, or bacteriuria.”
      “Virtually every patient with chronic catheterization is colonized with bacteriuria within six weeks.”
      “In the absence of symptoms, chronic bacterial prostatitis is sometimes discovered by the presence of bacteriuria.”
bacteriophobe
  1. A person afflicted with bacteriophobia.
  2. Synonyms:
bacteriolysis
  1. The destruction of bacteria by lysis
  2. Examples:
    1. “This process, which he called hemolysis, was analogous to bacteriolysis and also required complement.”
      “Serum antibodies to capsular polysaccharides confer protection against meningococcal disease by activating complement-dependent bacteriolysis and, possibly, by opsonization.”
      “Paul Ehrlich had characterized the immune reactions of agglutination, bacteriolysis and hemolysis.”
bacteriosis
  1. (botany) Any infection by bacteria
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mr. McMurren has been saying a few words about bacteriosis in which he has not given us an impression of seriousness.”
      “Bacterial diseases in the higher plants have been described, bacteriosis in plants.”
      “Symptoms of bacteriosis on leave are angular and raised while those of anthracnose have diffused contours and are flat.”
bacterioscopist
  1. One who carries out bacterioscopy.
bacteriophagy
  1. The feeding on bacteria.
bacteriophobia
bacteremia
  1. Alternative spelling of bacteraemia
  2. Examples:
    1. “Fever may be a marker of sepsis, localized infection, occult bacteremia, or benign illness.”
      “Patients who are immunosuppressed or immunocompromised need to take prophylactic antibiotics when at risk of bacteremia.”
      “Invasive disease includes bacteremia, meningitis and infection in a normally sterile site, excluding the middle ear.”
bacteriocidin
  1. Alternative form of bactericidin
bacteriocide
  1. Alternative form of bactericide
  2. Synonyms:
bacterization
  1. The act or process of bacterizing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “They test candidate bacterial isolates for control of take-all by seed bacterization at Mt. Vernon, taking advantage of this situation.”
      “Seed bacterization with Bacillus subtilis AF 1 enhances seedling emergence and nodulation in pigeon pea.”
      “In the greenhouse root fresh weight, shoot fresh weight and total fresh weight were evaluated 21 days after bacterization.”
bacteria
  1. plural of bacterium
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Certain bacteria in contaminated food or water can release a toxin that causes your intestinal cells to secrete salt and water.”
      “In addition, toxigenic bacteria that have been implicated in sudden infant death syndrome do reside in used infant mattresses.”
      “Some types of bacteria release poisons called toxins while they are multiplying in food.”
bacteriemia
  1. bacteremia
  2. Examples:
    1. “Occult bacteriemia is possible in some children in whom the focus of fever can not be determined.”
bacteriohopanepolyols
bacteriochlorophylls
bacteriophytochromes
bacterioagglutinins
  1. plural of bacterioagglutinin
bacteriopheophytins
  1. plural of bacteriopheophytin
bacterializations
  1. plural of bacterialization
bacterioferritins
  1. plural of bacterioferritin
bacteriochlorins
  1. plural of bacteriochlorin
bacterioscopists
  1. plural of bacterioscopist
bacteriotherapies
  1. plural of bacteriotherapy
bacteriologists
  1. plural of bacteriologist
  2. Examples:
    1. “Chemists and bacteriologists verified the dangerous levels of microorganisms at all four of the city's intake points along the lakefront.”
      “Must we geneticists become bacteriologists, physiological chemists and physicists, simultaneously with being zoologists and botanists?”
      “Meanwhile the bacteriologists are steadily at work on a vaccine or antitoxin.”
bacteriolyses
  1. plural of bacteriolysis
bacteriolysins
  1. plural of bacteriolysin
bacteriophobes
bacterizations
  1. plural of bacterization
bacteriocidins
  1. plural of bacteriocidin
bacteriotoxins
  1. plural of bacteriotoxin
bacteriophages
  1. plural of bacteriophage
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In Belgium, as late as 1945, Gratia's group observed that nucleases had no effect on four tested bacteriophages of various origins.”
      “However, another promising approach is to use bacterial viruses knows as bacteriophages to produce vaccines very rapidly and cheaply.”
      “Suitable vectors are the DNAs of bacterial viruses or bacteriophages which naturally infect bacteria and replicate within them.”
bacteriocytes
  1. plural of bacteriocyte
bactericidins
  1. plural of bactericidin
bacteriocides
bacteroidetes
  1. plural of bacteroidete
bacteriologies
bacterioses
  1. plural of bacteriosis
bactericides
  1. plural of bactericide
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He views fungicides, bactericides, insecticides, and herbicides flowing through the waxy peaks and valleys of the leaf surface, just as water flows on planet Earth.”
      “When infection is confirmed in or near your field, implement a timely program of fungicides and bactericides with protectant and systemic modes of action.”
      “Specialty biocides include bactericides, bacteriostats and fungicides.”
bacterivores
  1. plural of bacterivore
bacteraemias
  1. plural of bacteraemia
bacteriurias
  1. plural of bacteriuria
bacteriocins
  1. plural of bacteriocin
  2. Examples:
    1. “They produce antibiotics known as bacteriocins that are poisonous to their own species.”
      “It is becoming evident however that some strains that appear to have similar spectra of inhibitory activity produce quite different bacteriocins.”
      “Preliminary data indicate bacteriocins may be effective in reducing other foodborne bacteria such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli.”
bacteriomes
  1. plural of bacteriome
bacteremias
  1. plural of bacteremia
bacteriae
bacterias
  1. (US) plural of bacteria
bacterins
  1. plural of bacterin
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Distemper, Parvo, Adeno, and Parainfluenza virus antigens and Leptospira bacterins should be included.”
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