| Learning / English Dictionary |
MICROBIOLOGY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("microbiology" is a kind of...):
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Domain member category:
bacteria; bacterium ((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)
colony ((microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell)
prion ((microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system)
virino ((microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins)
exacting; fastidious (having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures)
unfastidious (not exacting in nutritional requirements)
Derivation:
microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)
Context examples:
The day that a microbiology specimen is collected.
(Microbiology Specimen Day, NCI Thesaurus)
A character or string that represents a microbiology specimen examination.
(Microbiology Specimen Test, NCI Thesaurus)
A subdivision of microbiology specimen data.
(Microbiology Specimen Subcategory, NCI Thesaurus)
This domain does not include microbiology or pharmacokinetic data, which are stored in separate domains.
(Laboratory Data Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A sequence of characters that represents a microbiology specimen examination.
(Microbiology Specimen Test Code, NCI Thesaurus)
A point in time referring to microbiology specimen data.
(Microbiology Specimen Timepoint, NCI Thesaurus)
A classification of microbiology specimen data.
(Microbiology Specimen Category, NCI Thesaurus)
The standard character or string for representation and reporting of microbiology specimen data.
(Microbiology Specimen Character Result in Standard Format, NCI Thesaurus)
The date and time of a microbiology specimen data reference point.
(Microbiology Specimen Date Time of Reference Timepoint, NCI Thesaurus)
The date and time of the microbiology specimen data.
(Microbiology Specimen Date Time, NCI Thesaurus)
