MYCOPLASMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mycoplasma mean? 

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

1. any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYCOPLASMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

eubacteria; eubacterium; true bacteria (a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella)

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

pleuropneumonialike organism; PPLO (a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans)

Holonyms ("mycoplasma" is a member of...):

genus Mycoplasma (type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae)

 Context examples 

Some CD8 cells recognize and kill cancerous cells and those infected by intracellular pathogens (some bacteria, viruses and mycoplasma) and they are called cytotoxic T-lymphocytes

(Murine CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Arthritis caused by bacteria, rickettsiae, mycoplasmas, viruses, fungi, or parasites.

(Infective Arthritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This combination is active against most gram-positive organisms, including Enterococcus faecium, and is also active against some gram-negative organisms and mycoplasma.

(Dalfopristin, NCI Thesaurus)

A quinone antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces rosa var. notoensis with activity against gram-positive bacteria, mycoplasmas and fungi.

(Nanafrocin, NCI Thesaurus)