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单词 micrococcus
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micrococcusn.

Brit. /ˌmʌɪkrə(ʊ)ˈkɒkəs/, U.S. /ˌmaɪkroʊˈkɑkəs/
Inflections: Plural micrococci Brit. /ˌmʌɪkrə(ʊ)ˈkɒk(s)ʌɪ/, U.S. /ˌmaɪkroʊˈkɑˌkaɪ/.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: micro- comb. form, coccus n.
Etymology: < micro- comb. form + coccus n., after German Mikrococcus (E. Hallier Das Cholera-Contagium (1867), the source translated in quots. 18701, 18701), itself perhaps after scientific Latin micrococcus (used in botanical nomenclature from the mid 19th cent.). Adopted as a genus name by F. Cohn 1872, in Beiträge zur Biol. der Pflanzen 1 151.
Microbiology.
(a) A small germ or seed postulated as an elementary precursor to a living organism; spec. that of the causative agent of cholera. Obsolete. (b) Any member of the genus Micrococcus, originally comprising all spherical bacteria, now comprising some nine species of Gram-positive spherical bacteria that form part of the normal bacterial flora of the skin of warm-blooded animals, and occasionally act as opportunistic pathogens; (in form Micrococcus) the genus itself.
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1870 Nature 22 Sept. 427/1 These views, so far as they are identical with Professor Halliers' [sic] as to the importance of those most minute of living organisms, the micrococcus of his nomenclature, the microzymes of Mr. Simon's Blue Book, were passed in review.
1870 T. R. Lewis Physiol. & Pathol. Res. (1888) 29 The term ‘micrococcus’..is now pretty generally adopted on the continent by the class of writers who advocate the pre-existence of a germ, in some shape or other, to every living thing... The micrococcus, or germ of cholera, is, in the opinion of Hallier, the disintegrated spores of a special fungus.
1873 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 13 158 In Sphærobacteria we have one genus, Micrococcus, with species grouped as Zymogenous, Chromogenous, and Pathogenous.
1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants 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.
1907 Brain 30 83 A micrococcus was isolated in pure culture from the blood of the patient after death.
1949 H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics I. i. 7 The bacillus anthracis was present in fair number, but the micrococcus was still more abundant.
1971 Nature 8 Jan. 120/1 The resident flora of the external auditory canal is composed of non-pathogenic micrococci and corynebacteria.
1986 Bergey's Man. Systematic Bacteriol. II. 1005/1 Mammalian skin is now considered to be a primary natural habitat of micrococci.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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