staphylococcus – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
staphylococcus
n.
type of spherical bacteria
Staphylococcus
staphylococcus
Noun
1. spherical gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections
(synonym) staphylococci, staph
(hypernym) coccus, cocci
(member-holonym) genus Staphylococcus
Staphylococcus
A group of bacteria, familiarly known as Staph, that can > (and do) cause a multitude of diseases. The name comes from the Greek staphyle meaning a bunch of grapes + kokkos meaning berry, and that is exactly what Staph look like under the microscope, like a bunch of grape or little round berries. (In technical terms, these are gram-positive, facultative anaerobic, usually unencapsulated cocci). Staph can cause illness directly by infection or indirectly through products they make such as toxins responsible for food poisoning and toxic shock syndrome.
staphylococcus
Synonyms and related words:
adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, bug, coccus, disease-producing microorganism, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, fungus, germ, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, microbe, microorganism, mold, nonfilterable virus, pathogen, picornavirus, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, spirillum, spirochete, spore, streptococcus, trypanosome, vibrio, virus
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
