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bacteriological, a.|bæktɪərɪəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl|
[f. bacteriology: see -ical.]
Pertaining to bacteriology.
1886Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Aug. 383/1 A number of little bacteriological accessories. 1886E. M. Crookshank Bacteriology 3 The apparatus commonly employed in a bacteriological laboratory. 1898R. T. Hewlett Bacteriology 165 The bacteriological study of diphtheria. 1939F. A. Knott Clinical Bacteriology i. 1 These bacteriological and serological tests are..numerous.
b. bacteriological warfare, the use, as a means of war, of bacteria to spread disease in the enemy. Cf. biological warfare.
1924League of Nations Official Jrnl. Oct. 1628 The present report deals successively with the known effects of chemical warfare and the possible effects of bacteriological warfare. 1933Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVII. 827 The Geneva Gas Protocol of 1925..prohibits bacteriological methods of warfare. 1938Times 23 May 8/3 Bacteriological warfare—the scattering from the sky of germs to spread disease among the people—was out of the question. 1959Observer 25 Jan. 1/1 There is a legalistic difference between bacteriological and biological warfare. The first involves the use of live germs and is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. The second involves the use of toxins derived from the germs and is permissible.
Hence bacterioˈlogically adv.
1892A. C. Abbott Bacteriology 229 Typhoid fever is bacteriologically one of the most unsatisfactory of the infectious diseases. 1964M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) iii. 26 A coating of hot oil is bacteriologically equivalent to dry heat. |