Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of bacteria, especially in relation to medicine and agriculture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That department of biology which investigates bacteria and other microbes, especially their life-history and agency in disease; the scientific study of bacteria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The branch of microbiology relating to bacteria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology The
scientific study ofbacteria , especially in relation todisease andagriculture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease
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Examples
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These publications are historical sources for a period which witnessed the transition from a humoral to a biochemical tradition, which was based on laboratorial science and document the important breakthroughs in bacteriology, parasitology and the developments of vaccines in a colonial context
May 2007 2007
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Sherrington stayed with Koch to do research in bacteriology for a year, and in 1887 he was appointed Lecturer in Systematic Physiology at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and also was elected a Fellow of
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In 1940 he graduated from Harvard Medical School and was appointed as resident physician in bacteriology at The Children's
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The great series of triumphs was, however, to follow upon etiological studies made by men trained in bacteriology and parasitology.
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"Of course I do!" she answered -- "You see, it's all a question of what they call bacteriology nowadays.
The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889
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(1870 – 1961) is, after Louis Pasteur, the greatest name in bacteriology and immunology in th early 20th century.
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He was responsible for the introduction of many new techniques and innovations in bacteriology.
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Initially I started to work on virus-induced chromosomal modifications and at the same time received relatively solid training in diagnostic bacteriology and virology, both of them at that time in an early stage of development.
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The protective measures relating to food and water supplies indicate a superhuman knowledge of bacteriology.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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With a background in bacteriology, Dr. McCullough suspected that the blood cells were forming the equivalent of a bacterial colony and that this was the source of the new blood cells that were keeping the animals alive.
Ernest McCulloch dies: Scientist who first identified stem cells was 84 Thomas Maugh II 2011
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