MICROBIOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microbiology mean? 

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

1. the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROBIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Domain member category:

bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)

colony ((microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell)

prion ((microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system)

virino ((microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins)

exacting; fastidious (having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures)

unfastidious (not exacting in nutritional requirements)

Derivation:

microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)

 Context examples 

The value in which the outcome of the microbiology specimen examination observation was originally reported.

(Microbiology Specimen Examination Original Result, NCI Thesaurus)

The numerical identifier of a microbiology specimen result in standard units.

(Microbiology Specimen Result in Standard Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

The interval between two reference points in time with regards to a microbiology specimen.

(Microbiology Specimen Elapsed Time, NCI Thesaurus)

The standard unit of measure for microbiology specimen results.

(Microbiology Specimen Result Standard Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

The unit of measure first specified in the microbiology specimen examination.

(Microbiology Specimen Examination Original Result Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

A character or string that represents a microbiology specimen group.

(Microbiology Specimen Group Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

The technique used to administer an examination of a microbiology specimen.

(Microbiology Specimen Method, NCI Thesaurus)

A character or string used to name, or characterize a microbiology specimen reference.

(Microbiology Specimen Reference Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

A classification of a microbiology specimen result.

(Microbiology Specimen Result Category, NCI Thesaurus)

A site where a microbiology specimen is collected.

(Microbiology Specimen Origin, NCI Thesaurus)