n
The study of the dispersion of airborne biological materials, as pollen, spores, microorganisms, or viruses.
adj
Relating to anhydrobiosis
adj
(microbiology) Relating to the archaea
adj
Relating to archaeosomes
n
Synonym of xenomicrobiology
n
A culture of microorganisms used in auxanography.
n
The study of the effects of changes in environment on the growth of microorganisms.
adj
(microbiology) Of, relating to, or caused by bacteria.
n
(microbiology) A test of how well bacteria grows in certain conditions
adj
Of or pertaining to bacteriology.
adj
(biology) Relating to a bacteriome
adj
(malacology) Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a bactriticone.
adj
Relating to, or containing biomicrite
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to biophilia.
adj
Of or relating to calcimicrobes.
n
The number of bacteria cells in a particular volume of liquid such as blood, milk, etc.
adj
Relating to the chaulmoogra tree or to chaulmoogric acid, obtained from its seeds.
n
A cryptobiotic response to high levels of environmental toxins.
adj
Relating to climacteria
n
A group of bacteria, fungi or other cells cultured together, especially from a single cell.
n
(microbiology) A unit which estimates the number of viable microbial cells (bacteria, fungi, viruses etc.) in a sample.
n
(microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
n
(microbiology) A liquid or gel, containing nutrients, that is used to cultivate microorganisms.
n
(biology) All the bacterial cultures of an organism
n
A bacteriologist whose speciality is the cyanobacteria
adj
Relating to dendritogenesis
adj
(biology) dendritic and somatic
adj
Relating to electromicrobiology
adj
Relating to microbes from outside of an organism's body
n
An endomicrobial microbiome
n
(biology) The microbiome of the intestines
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to the Eubacteria
adj
(microbiology, cytology) Characterized by eutely.
adj
Of or pertaining to exobiology.
n
The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.
adj
Of or pertaining to geomicrobiology
n
(geology, biology) The study of the role of microbes and microbial processes in the fields of geology and geochemistry.
n
The use of harmful microorganisms as a weapon of war.
adj
(sciences) Specifically, pertaining to an animal with no microorganisms living in or on it, used in gnotobiotic research.
n
The cultivation of microbes.
n
(historical) The belief that all living things were composed of tiny globules visible under a microscope.
n
A microbiome associated with an environment rich in glycans
n
The science involved with maintaining a microbiologically controlled environment.
adj
Relating to heteroliths
n
A sheet of culture medium designed to allow the formation (and subsequent counting) of heterotrophic bacterial colonies, especially as a means of evaluating drinking water
adj
Of or relating to hydronasty.
adj
Relating to a hydrosol.
adj
(biology) Describing the hydraulic transport system used by echinoderms
adj
Relating to a hygroreceptor
n
(microbiology) a microbe which lives deep underground
adj
Relating to lithotrophs or to lithotrophy
adj
Relating to macrobacteria
adj
Of or pertaining to macrobiology.
n
fouling by macroorganisms
adj
Of or pertaining to macromonomers.
n
Any of the elements required in large amounts by all living things.
adj
Of or relating to a macropinacoid.
n
(microbiology) A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.
n
(by extension) Any dramatic change from one thing to another
adj
Relating to methanoarchaea
adj
Of or pertaining to micelles.
adj
(anatomy) Of or relating to a microacinus.
n
(biology) microbial aerobiosis
n
The condition of being microaerophilic
adj
Of or relating to a microaerophile or to microaerophily.
adj
Alternative form of microaerophilic [Of or relating to a microaerophile or to microaerophily.]
n
The condition of being microaerophilic
adj
Of, or pertaining to, microalga.
adj
Relating to a microaneurysm
adj
Relating to microbacteria.
adj
Alternative form of microbial [Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.]
adj
Relating to the microbenthos.
adj
Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.
adj
Relating to microbialite.
n
(ecology) The modification of an environment by invasion of microbes
adv
(sciences) By means of or in relation to microbes
adj
(biology) Of, relating to, or caused by, microbes; microbial.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or functioning as a microbicide
n
(university slang) Abbreviation of microbiology. [(biology) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.]
adj
Of or pertaining to microbiochemistry.
adj
Of or pertaining to microbiology.
n
(biology) A microbial biome, such as the community of microbes within the human gut.
adj
Relating to a microbiome
n
The study of microbiomes.
n
An infection of microbes
n
The microbial community that inhabits a multi-cellular organism, whether the entire organism or a specific body surface.
adj
Relating to microbiota
adj
Relating to microbiota
n
infestation with microbes
adj
Relating to microchemotaxis
adj
Of or pertaining to microchimerism.
n
A bacteriologist whose speciality is micrococci
adj
Relating to, or forming a microcolony
n
A microscopic colony of cells (especially of bacteria)
n
(biology) A microscopic heterotrophic consumer (typically bacteria or fungi)
adj
Of or pertaining to microcytes.
n
The ecology of a system of microorganisms
adj
Relating to microeukaryotes
adj
Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
adj
Relating to microfilaraemia
adj
Of or pertaining to microflora.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics or a microfluid
adj
Of or pertaining to a microfuge
adj
Relating to microfungi.
adj
(pathology) Relating to microgastria
adj
Of or pertaining to microglia
adj
Relating to microheterotrophs
n
(pathology) infection by a microorganism
n
Microorganisms collectively
adj
Relating to microorganisms
adj
Relating to a microorganism
adj
Of or pertaining to microparasites.
n
Any microscopic pathogen (such as viruses, bacteria &c)
n
A morbid fear of microbes.
n
(informal, biology) excretion of waste by microorganisms
v
(biology) To propagate by means of micropropagation
n
(biology) The propagation of plant clones from a microscopic piece of tissue from a single plant
adj
Of or pertaining to micropyles
adj
Relating to microrefugia
adj
Relating to or characteristic of the microsaurs
adj
Of or pertaining to a microsome
adj
Relating to microsomes
adj
Of or relating to an agent that prevents a colony of microbes from increasing in size.
adj
Relating to microsymbiosis or to microsymbionts
adj
Of or pertaining to microtubules.
n
(biology, dated) A microorganism supposed to act like an enzyme in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
adj
Of or relating to microzymas.
adj
(biology) Relating to mixis.
adj
(medicine) Relating to, or caused by only one type of microbe.
adj
Relating to multiple types of microorganism
adj
Relating to mycobacteriology
adj
Of or pertaining to myrmecology
adj
Describing microbes of the phylum Nanoarchaeota
adj
Of or relating to nitrophytes.
adj
Intermediate between oligotrophic and mesotrophic
adj
Relating to, or composed of organic detritus
n
(medicine) Microbiological cultures of blood, urine, sputum and stool in search of an offending pathogen.
adj
Of or relating to Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
adj
Surrounding a microbe; especially surrounding a bacterium within a higher organism.
adj
Of or relating to photophytes.
adj
Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.
adj
(biology) Relating to a phyton
adj
Relating to, or causing phytopromotion
adj
(biology) Relating to phytotelmata
n
(microbiology) A measure of bacterial contamination of a sample.
adj
Relating to many (types of) microbacteria
adj
Of or pertaining to multiple types (species) of microbes
adj
(ecology) Of, or relating to probiosis; ecologic facilitation.
adj
(biochemistry) That gave rise to early life
adj
(biology) Relating to pseudomicrobes
adj
Relating to saprobiology.
adj
Alternative form of schistose [(geology) Of or relating to schist.]
adj
(biology) social and microbial
adj
Relating to sociomicrobiology
n
The study of microbial society
n
The subdiscipline of soil science that studies the functions and activities of soil-based microorganisms.
n
Those supposed parts of a microbiome that were accidentally introduced vis splashes during the analysis
n
(biology) Any fraction (of cells) into which a cultivation is divided when the concentration of cells hampers further growth.
v
(biology) To transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture
adj
(geology) Related to or arising during telogenesis, the process of erosion and oxidation that occurs when sedimentary rocks are subject to uplift.
n
(biology) The microbiome existing in a mammalian host after it dies.
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to a thanatomicrobiome.
n
The study of transplastomic plants
n
A microbiome of the urinary tract
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