Definition of Microorganisms

1. Noun. (plural of microorganism) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of microörganism) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Microorganisms

1. microorganism [n] - See also: microorganism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microorganisms

micronucleus
micronucleus tests
micronuke
micronukes
micronutrient
micronutrients
micronychia
micronystagmus
microohm
microohms
microomist
microomy
microoperation
microoperations
microorganism
microorganisms (current term)
microoxygenation
micropalaeontologic
micropalaeontologist
micropalaeontologists
micropalaeontology
micropaleontologic
micropaleontological
micropaleontologist
micropaleontologists
micropaleontology
micropalæontologic
micropalæontologist
micropalæontologists
micropalæontology

Literary usage of Microorganisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pathogenic Microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1917)
"Some of these disease-producing or pathogenic microorganisms are plants, ... CLASSIFICATION OF microorganisms. The classification of microorganisms is still ..."

2. Household Bacteriology for Students in Domestic Sciences by Estelle Denis Buchanan, Robert Earle Buchanan (1913)
"Dust and microorganisms are not necessarily associated. Dust which has its origin in smoke and soot maybe practically sterile; in fact, the air of smoky ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"THE microorganisms OF THE MOUTH ; THE LOCAL AND GENERAL DISEASES CAUSED BY THEM. ... It is shown that these microorganisms of the mouth differ in no ..."

4. Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2006)
"BOX 1.1 Planetary Protection Terminology The practices of detecting, cleaning, and reducing the bioburden presented by microorganisms on spacecraft are ..."

5. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"The microorganisms of tetanus, anthrax, symptomatic anthrax and malignant edema ... A free flow of blood also washes the microorganisms out of the wound. ..."

6. Laboratory Manual in General Microbiology by Dept. of Bacteriology and Public Health, Michigan, Michigan State University, East Lansing Agricultural College, Dept. of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1916)
"METHOD OF MEASURING microorganisms 1. Using the Leitz Ocular " Step ... It is of importance to be able to determine the size of microorganisms: (1) because ..."

7. Guide for Conducting Treatability Studies Under CERCLA: Biodegradation by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Genetically-modified microorganisms are currently regulated under TSCA ... 401 There are numerous circumstances under which microorganisms are exempt from ..."

8. Descriptive Meteorology by Willis Luther Moore (1910)
"microorganisms, or microbes, float in the air. They are of the pathogenic, or disease-producing, type, and of the non- pathogenic varieties, ..."

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