Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various extremely small bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma that lack cell walls, are usually nonmotile, and are often pathogenic or parasitic in mammals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term applied by Eriksson to a latent infective form of
Puccinia which, concealed within the cytoplasm of the host-cells, later develops into mycelium. Alsomycoplasm .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
infectious bacterium of the genusMycoplasma , often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word mycoplasma.
Examples
-
He bucked scientific consensus to figure out that so-called "walking pneumonia" is caused not by a virus but by a kind of bacteria called mycoplasma, and he showed that it could be treated with antibiotics.
Robert M. Chanock, virologist who studied children's diseases, dies at 86 2010
-
Or even how a bacteria works or how to kill one.most bacteria have a cell wall and can be killed by penetrating this cell wall, , but their is a group of microorganisms called mycoplasma which do not have cell wals and actually live inside the cell and live off of the stuff the nucleus depends on for sustenance Hmm...
-
Three years after having her life thrown into chaos by a rare brain infection called mycoplasma meningoencephalitis - an aggressive form of meningitis - Maggie is back on the basketball court at BV Northwest.
-
For all I know, it was a coinfection such as mycoplasma or chlamydia pneumoniae or even some kind of ehrlichiosis that my body was able to clear on its own, although I never tested remotely positive for ehrlichiosis, or some kind of post-infection autoimmune reaction.
Sitemeter Loves Me 1 Dinosaur 2007
-
He notes air filtration technology developed for PRRS is applicable to other airborne diseases such as mycoplasma and most likely will be applicable to agents that cause influenza.
-
I have lyme, fibromyalgia, mycoplasma penetrans, graves disease and other conditions.
-
It was a large undertaking to assemble the 1 million base pair synthetic chromosome for a mycoplasma.
-
Various types of bacteria and other organisms, including genital mycoplasma and ureaplasma, have also been linked to PID.
A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010
-
When present, semen cultures should be obtained to look for bacteria such as enterococcus, E. coli, and chlamydia, as well as mycoplasma, which may affect fertility.
A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010
-
The deal is narrow, relating to the technology for making and selling to China branded vaccines to combat mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, a strain of pig pneumonia.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.