| 单词 |
micrococcus |
| 释义 |
‖ micrococcus Biol.|maɪkrəʊˈkɒkəs|
Pl. micrococci |-ˈkɒksaɪ|.
[mod.L., f. Gr. µῑκρό-ς small + κόκκος berry.]
Any one of a genus of minute spherical or slightly oval organisms, generally regarded as fission-fungi, belonging to the biological group of Sphærobacteria or Schizomycetes.
1870T. R. Lewis Physiol. & Pathol. Res. (1888) 4 A ‘micrococcus colony’. Ibid. 29 Writers who advocate the pre-existence of a germ..to every living thing, this germ..being called its ‘micrococcus’. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. vii. 173 The smallest micrococci which are distinctly discernable under a power of 800 diameters are estimated to be from ·0002 to ·0005 of a millimetre..in diameter.
attrib.1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxxvii. 560 The little vesicles [of prickly heat] may pustulate, doubtless from micrococcus infection.
Hence micrococcal |-ˈkɒkəl| a., relating to or caused by micrococci. microcoˈccologist, a student of micrococci.
1893W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. (ed. 2) II. 329 The micrococcal embolism of minute vessels. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 702 We must distinguish several kinds of that disease [diphtheria] (bacillary, micrococcal, and so forth). 1902A. Lang in Longm. Mag. Apr. 568 An eminent micrococcologist. |
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