INTESTINAL FLORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intestinal flora mean? 

• INTESTINAL FLORA (noun)
  The noun INTESTINAL FLORA has 1 sense:

1. harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning

  Familiarity information: INTESTINAL FLORA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTESTINAL FLORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("intestinal flora" is a kind of...):

micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)

 Context examples 

Also called gut flora, gut microflora, intestinal flora, and microflora.

(Intestinal microflora, NCI Dictionary)

Also called gut flora, intestinal flora, intestinal microflora, and microflora.

(Gut microflora, NCI Dictionary)

Also called gut microflora, intestinal flora, intestinal microflora, and microflora.

(Gut flora, NCI Dictionary)

Also called gut flora, gut microflora, intestinal flora, and intestinal microflora.

(Microflora, NCI Dictionary)

Vitamins such as biotin and vitamin K are made by intestinal flora.

(Intestinal flora, NCI Dictionary)

A. defectiva is normally a commensal organism in the oral, genitourinary, and intestinal floras but may become pathogenic in response to underlying disease.

(Abiotrophia defectiva, NCI Thesaurus)