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PPLO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does PPLO mean?
• PPLO (noun)
The noun PPLO has 1 sense:
1. a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
Familiarity information: PPLO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
pleuropneumonialike organism; PPLO
Hypernyms ("PPLO" is a kind of...):
mycoplasma (any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection)
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