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Definition of Germ theory
1. Noun. (medicine) the theory that all contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms.
Medical Definition of Germ theory
1. The theory, now a doctrine, that infectious diseases are due to the presence and functional activity of microorganisms within the body. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Germ Theory
Literary usage of Germ theory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell (1910)
"... OF THE germ theory TO THE ETIOLOGY OF CERTAIN COMMON DISEASES' WHEN I began
the studies now occupying my attention,2 I was attempting to extend the germ ..."
2. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst (1910)
"ON THE EXTENSION OF THE germ theory TO THE ETIOLOGY OF CERTAIN COMMON ... tion,3
I was attempting to extend the germ theory' * ' to certain common diseases. ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1884)
"IN a former article (November 1881) I set forth the ' germ-theory' of Zymotic
diseases, as recently built up by micro-pathological study, on the basis of ..."
4. Essays on the Floating-matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and by John Tyndall (1882)
"The germ theory applied to Surgery. Not only medical but still more especially
surgical science is now seeking light and guidance from this germ theory. ..."
5. Household Bacteriology for Students in Domestic Sciences by Estelle Denis Buchanan, Robert Earle Buchanan (1913)
"germ theory of Fermentation and Decay. — After the discovery of microorganisms
in many fermenting and decaying materials, the question naturally arose, ..."
6. Public Water-supplies: Requirements, Resources, and the Construction of Works by Frederick Eugene Turneaure, Harry Luman Russell, Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"The germ theory of communicable diseases is now so definitely established that
it is unnecessary to present proof in detail that the various maladies of ..."
7. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1878)
"To understand or appreciate arguments for or against the germ-theory of disease,
... Not only by Dr. Bastian, but by many others, the germ-theory of ..."
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