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microbiology Biol.|maɪkrəʊbaɪˈɒlədʒɪ| [f. micro- + biology.] The science which treats of micro-organisms; the study of microbes.
1888Pop. Sci. Monthly XXXIII. 341 There was great reason for creating in the Faculty of Sciences the chair of Microbiology. 1891Nature 20 Aug. 366/1 Important as are the researches into microbiology, there are other factors to reckon with. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 347 Microbiology has thrown great light upon this..idiopathic pleurisy. Hence microbioˈlogic, microbioˈlogical a., of or pertaining to microbiology; microbioˈlogically adv., by microbiological methods; microbiˈologist, a student of microbiology.
1885Science V. 73 Ideas which are just now very prominent in the minds of microbiologists. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 990 This..extremely delicate micro-biological method. 1909Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 2/1 He is..reminded of the doctrine of the etiology of infectious diseases before the advent of the microbiologic epoch. 1942Industr. & Engin. Chem. (Analytical Ed.) 15 Aug. 667/1 The extracted residue of dried skim milk was microbiologically inert, while the residue of alfalfa leaf meal exerted a little stimulatory action. 1956Nature 4 Feb. 221/1 The relation between seven different tree-supports..and two epiphytes was examined microbiologically. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. IX. 620/2 Penicillin can also be chemically or microbiologically degraded and then built up to form new penicillins. 1969Wilson & Mizer Microbiol. in Nursing Pract. i. 11/2 Since Leeuwenhoek's first glimpse of bacteria and protozoa, microbiologic investigations have resulted in the accumulation of a vast body of knowledge..that has lightened immeasurably the burden of human disease. |