ANAEROBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anaerobe mean? 

• ANAEROBE (noun)
  The noun ANAEROBE has 1 sense:

1. an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live

  Familiarity information: ANAEROBE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANAEROBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("anaerobe" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anaerobe"):

obligate anaerobe (an organism that cannot grow in the presence of oxygen)

Derivation:

anaerobiotic (living or active in the absence of free oxygen)

 Context examples 

It has been proposed for infections with certain anaerobes and may be useful in inner ear, bile, and CNS infections.

(Mezlocillin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Mafenide acetate is bacteriostatic against many gram-negative and gram-positive organisms, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa and certain strains of anaerobes.

(Mafenide Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)

A daloxate ester prodrug form of faropenem, a penem with a tetrahydrofuran substituent at position C2, with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity against many gram-positive and gram-negative aerobes and anaerobes.

(Faropenem Medoxomil, NCI Thesaurus)

Meropenem acts against aerobes and anaerobes including Klebsiella, E. coli, Enterococcus, Clostridium sp..

(Meropenem, NCI Thesaurus)

A penem with a tetrahydrofuran substituent at position C2, with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity against many gram-positive and gram-negative aerobes and anaerobes.

(Faropenem, NCI Thesaurus)