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Staphylococcus

noun

(pl. staphylococci)

Spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections. Synonyms: staph, staphylococci.

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... the individual plants attached to each other, or arranged in a row like a chain of beads on a string, and because it produces pus. In a similar way we have the pus-causing grape coccus of a golden color (staphylococcus pyogenes aureus). It grows with the individual plants arranged somewhat after the manner of a bunch of grapes, and when millions of them are collected together, the mass has a golden yellow hue. Again, we have the bacillus tuberculosis, the rod-shaped plant which is known to cause tuberculosis ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various

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Words linked to "Staphylococcus" : cocci, coccus, staphylococcal