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MICROBE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("microbe" is a kind of...):
micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)
Derivation:
microbial (of or involving or caused by or being microbes)
Context examples:
This is a negative staining method in which background is stained in black and the microbes and microscopic structures of interest remain white.
(India Ink Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)
A specific individual microbe and its genetically identical progeny separated on a single occasion from a sample taken from a host or culture system.
(Isolate, NCI Thesaurus)
Drug bioavailability can be affected due to enzymatic degradation by intestinal tissues and microbes, and first-pass hepatic metabolism.
(Enteral Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
For him the villain, for me the microbe.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The determination of whether the microbe or lesion is resistant to drugs normally used in treatment.
(Drug Resistance Status, NCI Thesaurus)
Other microbes, dependent on nitrates, came to dominate the plume instead.
(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)
C. fetus is an opportunistic microbe that causes bacteremia, thrombophlebitis, septicemia, and is a suspected pathogen in immunocompromised patients with gastrointestinal symptoms.
(Campylobacter fetus, NCI Thesaurus)
The white blood cells bind to the antibodies and release substances that kill the target cells or microbes.
(ADCC, NCI Dictionary)
This system provides both an independent immune system capable of attacking microbes as well as other foreign material and an adjunct to the antibody system.
(Complement Component Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Specific families of pattern recognition receptors are responsible for detecting foreign DNA from invading microbes or host cells and generating innate immune responses.
(Cytosolic DNA-Sensing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
