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Definition of Sarcina

1. n. A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group.

Definition of Sarcina

1. a spherical bacterium [n -NAS or -NAE]

Medical Definition of Sarcina

1. A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. Sarcina form, the tetrad form seen in the division of a dumb-bell group of micrococci into four; applied particularly to bacteria. See micrococcus. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Of flesh, fr, flesh. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarcina

Literary usage of Sarcina

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

1. Manual of Bacteriology by Edgar March Crookshank (1890)
"sarcina aurantiaca sarcina ventriculi sarcina intestinalis sarcina urinae sarcina litoralis ... The cocci are occasionally present in the air. sarcina ..."

2. A Manual of Bacteriology by George Miller Sternberg (1892)
"The cells are smaller than those of sarcina lutea. Biological Characters.—An aerobic, liquefying, chromogenic sarcina. Grows in the usual culture media at ..."

3. Micro-organisms and Fermentation by Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen, Alfred Jörgensen, Alexander Kenneth Miller, A. E. Lennholm (1900)
"sarcina. HANSEN under the name of sarcina (Fig. 24). Organisms belonging to this group are found in very different localities. The sources from which the ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on Urinary and Renal Diseases: Including Urinary Deposits by William Roberts (1865)
"Since Heller and Mackay, in 1848. first discovered sarcina: in urine, they have been observed by ... It consists of the same elements as the sarcina ven- a ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1866)
"the originals, or conjoin and give rise to sarcina, all depends upon the nature of the fluid medium. If the influence of the air be slight, torula tends to ..."

6. Manual of Bacteriology by Edgar March Crookshank (1890)
"sarcina aurantiaca sarcina ventriculi sarcina intestinalis sarcina urinae sarcina litoralis ... The cocci are occasionally present in the air. sarcina ..."

7. A Manual of Bacteriology by George Miller Sternberg (1892)
"The cells are smaller than those of sarcina lutea. Biological Characters.—An aerobic, liquefying, chromogenic sarcina. Grows in the usual culture media at ..."

8. Micro-organisms and Fermentation by Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen, Alfred Jörgensen, Alexander Kenneth Miller, A. E. Lennholm (1900)
"sarcina. HANSEN under the name of sarcina (Fig. 24). Organisms belonging to this group are found in very different localities. The sources from which the ..."

9. A Practical Treatise on Urinary and Renal Diseases: Including Urinary Deposits by William Roberts (1865)
"Since Heller and Mackay, in 1848. first discovered sarcina: in urine, they have been observed by ... It consists of the same elements as the sarcina ven- a ..."

10. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1866)
"the originals, or conjoin and give rise to sarcina, all depends upon the nature of the fluid medium. If the influence of the air be slight, torula tends to ..."

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