bacteriologicaladj.
/baktɪərɪəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl/ a. Pertaining to bacteriology.
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micrological1848
biomechanical1856
micrographic1856
biodynamical1874
microbiological1880
geratologous1884
bacteriological1886
bacterioscopic1886
psychobiological1888
biometric1894
biopsychological1895
bacteriologic1896
biometrical1896
biophysical1896
bioeconomic1899
sociobiological1904
microbiologic1909
biomedical1921
metabiological1921
psychobiologic1921
bioecological1927
radiobiologic1929
radiobiological1931
sociobiological1947
biopsychosocial1951
virological1953
glycobiology1988
1886 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Aug. 383/1 A number of little bacteriological accessories.
1886 E. M. Crookshank Introd. Pract. Bacteriol. 3 The apparatus commonly employed in a bacteriological laboratory.
1898 R. T. Hewlett Man. Bacteriol. 165 The bacteriological study of diphtheria.
1939 F. A. Knott Clin. Bacteriol. i. 1 These bacteriological and serological tests are..numerous.
b. bacteriological warfare n. the use, as a means of war, of bacteria to spread disease in the enemy. Cf. biological adj. and n. warfare.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > chemical or germ warfare
chemical warfare1912
germ warfare1919
bacteriological warfare1924
biological warfare1933
biowar1950
biowarfare1951
1924 League 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.
1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 827 The Geneva Gas Protocol of 1925..prohibits bacteriological methods of warfare.
1938 Times 23 May 8/3 Bacteriological warfare—the scattering from the sky of germs to spread disease among the people—was out of the question.
1959 Observer 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.
Derivatives
bacterioˈlogically adv.
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bacteriologically1892
bacterioscopically1903
psychobiologically1910
microbiologically1928
sociobiologically1948
radiobiologically1956
1892 A. C. Abbott Princ. Bacteriol. 229 Typhoid fever is bacteriologically one of the most unsatisfactory of the infectious diseases.
1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) iii. 26 A coating of hot oil is bacteriologically equivalent to dry heat.
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adj.1886