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Definition of Actinomyces
1. Noun. Soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites.
Definition of Actinomyces
1. [n ACTINOMYCES]
Medical Definition of Actinomyces
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Actinomyces
Literary usage of Actinomyces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report (1904)
"Gradually the term "actinomyces" has passed from designating a single ... Of late
the tendency has been to supplant the term "actinomyces" by the term ..."
2. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"It is, however, to be noted that the term " actinomyces," as originally used,
... The actinomyces grows in the tissues in the form of little round masses or ..."
3. Micro-organisms and Disease: An Introduction Into the Study of Specific by Edward Klein (1886)
"Each of these actinomyces-corpuscles appears homogeneous, and of a bright slightly
... These masses consist of what is called actinomyces (Bellinger), ..."
4. The Pathology and Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases of Animals by Veranus Alva Moore (1916)
"There is considerable confusion regarding the genus actinomyces. The higher
bacteria having filaments showing true branching and that form the so-called ..."
5. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"actinomyces The actinomyces produces progressive lesions of a chronic type, ...
In the lung the actinomyces produces lobular pneumonia and abscesses from ..."
6. Text-book of General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy by Richard Thoma (1896)
"The most recent author on this subject, Bostroem, considers actinomyces as a special
... The colonies of the actinomyces may be seen with the naked eye as ..."