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cocci::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coccus |
| Type of | eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria |
| Has types | staph, staphylococci, staphylococcus |
Examples of cocci
cocci
For instance, microbiologists divided bacteria into bacilli, cocci and spirochetes.
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The UVA study is the first to assess the impact of antibiotic cycling on a group of bacteria known as gram-positive cocci.
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It lowered the rate of infections from resistant gram-positive cocci from 4.6 to 1.7 patients per 100 admissions.
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It had a strong protective action against infections caused by streptococci, including blood infections, childbed fever, and erysipelas, and a lesser effect on infections caused by other cocci.
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- Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
- (coccal) of or pertaining to or resembling a coccus
- Coccus (plural cocci) can be used to describe any bacterium that has a circular shape. It is one of the three distinct types of bacteria shapes, the other two being bacillus (rod-shaped) and spirillum (spiral-shaped) cells.
- Coccus is scale insect genus in the family Coccidae. It includes species such as Coccus viridis, a major pest of coffee.
- (Cocci) An oxycyt that destroys the lining of the small intestine causing diarrhea and death; (also known as coccidiosis)
- (Cocci) Usually used to describe the more or less separate lobes in a dehiscent fruit developed from a flower with an apocarpous ovary.
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- The genus of Insects including the Cochineal. In these the male is a minute, winged fly, and the female generally a motionless, berry-like mass.
- One of the segments (usually 1-seeded) of a distinctly lobed fruit which becomes separated at maturity; sometimes called a mericarp. Fig.18 H & P. pl. cocci.
