coliformadj.1
/ˈkəʊlɪfɔːm/, /ˈkɒlɪfɔːm/, U.S. /ˈkoʊliˌfɔrm/ ‘Resembling a strainer or sieve, cribriform; applied to the ethmoid bone’ (Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. 1851–60).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
coliformadj.2n.
/ˈkəʊlɪfɔːm/, /ˈkɒlɪfɔːm/, U.S. /ˈkoʊliˌfɔrm/ A. adj.2
Of the nature of or resembling a bacillus of the coli-group of bacteria.
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coliform1906
Sonne1920
1906 W. G. Savage Bacteriol. Exam. Water-supplies x. 155 For any isolated coliform organism to be considered an indicator of sewage and excretal pollution it must have all the attributes of the typical B. coli communis.
1907 Practitioner Nov. 646 A coliform organism, which was not B. typhosus, nor the ordinary type of B. coli.
1956 Nature 14 Jan. 97/1 The number of coliform bacteria..had not been reduced to the same extent. Excess of water..tends to encourage the coliforms.
B. n.
A bacillus of this or a similar group.
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tubercle bacillus1882
Koch's bacillus1885
comma (bacillus)1886
spider-cell1888
Klebs–Löffler1895
Hofmann's bacillus1897
Koch–Weeks bacillus1898
Pfeiffer's bacillus1900
Shiga1900
Hansen('s) bacillus1903
streptobacilli1903
Johne's bacillus1907
wisp bacillus1915
klebsiella1928
Shigella1937
listerella1940
coliform1951
thiobacillus1951
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xii. 194 (heading) Differentiation between Bact. Coli and Related Coliforms.
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xii. 194 The saprophytic coliforms, unlike Bact. coli, are able to utilize the carbon of citrates for growth.
1956 [see sense A.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.2n.1906