Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling diphtheria.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to or resembling
diphtheria - adjective Of, pertaining to or resembling the diphtheria
bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae
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Examples
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Note the presence or absence of altered and unaltered vegetable fibres; pus cells, blood discs; cocci in groups or chains, diphtheroid bacilli,
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A cocco-bacillary organism could easily be misinterpreted as a rod-shaped diphtheroid, especially since the microbiologist who’d performed the test hadn’t done the Gram stain.
Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000
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A cocco-bacillary organism could easily be misinterpreted as a rod-shaped diphtheroid, especially since the microbiologist who’d performed the test hadn’t done the Gram stain.
Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000
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A cocco-bacillary organism could easily be misinterpreted as a rod-shaped diphtheroid, especially since the microbiologist who’d performed the test hadn’t done the Gram stain.
Plain Truth JODI PICOULT 2000
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