单词 | bacterium |
释义 | bacterium (once / 12974 pages) n Use the word bacterium when you're talking about a single-celled organism. Your uncle's bad case of pneumonia might be caused by a bacterium. You're more likely to be familiar with the plural form of bacterium, bacteria. A bacterium is frequently the cause of diseases, specifically those known as bacterial illnesses. In biology, a bacterium is simply a microorganism, or a very tiny living thing, with cell walls but no distinct nucleus. The word itself comes from the Greek word bakterion, "small stick or rod," which describes a bacterium's shape when seen under a microscope. WORD FAMILYbacterium USAGE EXAMPLESJust as critically, the antibodies in the mice would kill the Lyme bacterium in any ticks that bite them. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) In 2011, an antibiotic-resistant bacterium spread through the clinical center, infecting 17 people, seven of whom died as a result of the outbreak. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) In people who are susceptible to leprosy, the immune system overlooks the bacterium and enables the infection to become established. Nature(Dec 20, 2016) n (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants Syn|Hypo|Hyper bacteria acidophil, acidophile an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment probiotic, probiotic bacterium, probiotic flora, probiotic microfloraa beneficial bacterium found in the intestinal tract of healthy mammals; often considered to be a plant bacteroida rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants) eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteriaa large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella Calymmatobacterium, genus Calymmatobacteriuma genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale Francisella, genus Francisellaa genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) Neisseria gonorrhoeae, gonococcusthe pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea Legionella pneumophilia, legionellathe motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease nitrobacteriumany of the bacteria in the soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle; they oxidize ammonium compounds into nitrites or oxidize nitrites into nitrates penicillin-resistant bacteriabacteria that are unaffected by penicillin pus-forming bacteriabacteria that produce pus rodany rod-shaped bacterium diplococcusGram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs superbuga strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics B, bacillusaerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil cocci, coccusany spherical or nearly spherical bacteria coccobacillusa bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus spirilla, spirillumany flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form clostridia, clostridiumspindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore Clostridium botulinum, botulinum, botulinusanaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism clostridium perfringensanaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon blue-green algae, cyanobacteriapredominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton phototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteriagreen and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbon pseudomonadbacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals xanthomonadbacteria producing yellow non-water-soluble pigments; some pathogenic for plants nitric bacteria, nitrobacteriasoil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates nitrosobacteria, nitrous bacteriasoil bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrites thiobacillussmall rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur spirillumspirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water vibrio, vibrioncurved rodlike motile bacterium corynebacteriumany species of the genus Corynebacterium listeriaany species of the genus Listeria enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria, entricrod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals endospore-forming bacteriaa group of true bacteria rickettsiaany of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings chlamydiacoccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract mycoplasmaany of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection nitrate bacterium, nitric bacteriumany of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates nitrite bacterium, nitrous bacteriumany of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites actinomyceteany bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales actinomycessoil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites mycobacteria, mycobacteriumrod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases streptobacillusany of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria gliding bacteria, myxobacter, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteriabacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste lactobacillusa Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk) Lactobacillus acidophilus, acidophilusa bacterium that is used to make yogurt and to supplement probiotics Diplococcus pneumoniae, pneumococcusbacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans strep, streptococci, streptococcusspherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis spirochaete, spirocheteparasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals micro-organism, microorganism any organism of microscopic size |
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