NOUN | cognition | microbiology | the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans |
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Sounds | may.krahbay.aa'lahjhiy; may.krowbay.aa'lahjhiy | |
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Rhymes | Agee ... zoology: 128 rhymes with jhiy... |
Meaning | The branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans. | |
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Category of | bacteria, bacterium | (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission |
colony | (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | |
fastidious, exacting | Having complicated nutritional requirements | |
prion | (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid | |
unfastidious | not exacting in nutritional requirements | |
virino | (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system | |
Broader | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
Spanish | microbiología | |
Catalan | microbiologia | |
Nouns | microbiologist | a specialist in microbiology |
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