What is another word for bacterial?

Pronunciation: [baktˈi͡əɹɪə͡l] (IPA)

Bacterial is a common term used to refer to anything that is caused by bacteria. However, there are various synonyms that can be used to describe bacteria related terms. Some of these include microbial, bacterial-related, bacterial-caused, bacterial-origin, bacterial-induced, bacteriological, and bacteriologic. These synonyms can be used interchangeably depending on the context and intent of the writer. For instance, when referring to bacterial infections, the term bacteriological or bacterial-induced can be used. When describing the symptoms of such infections, the synonym bacterial-related or bacterial-origin may be used. Ultimately, these synonyms help to provide variety in language and ease of comprehension, while maintaining the meaning of the original term.

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Usage examples for Bacterial

The general symptoms are very much like those belonging to other acute infectious or bacterial diseases.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Silage, properly cured, does not belong to this class, because the curing of silage is not a bacterial process.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
In most cases it is poison naturally belonging in the plant; in other cases the poisonous principle is developed in what would otherwise be harmless plants as a plant disease, or as a fermentation or putrefaction due to bacterial growth and observed in forage, grain, or meal that has become heated, damaged, or "spoilt."
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler

Famous quotes with Bacterial

  • I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
    Paul Nurse
  • In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
    Edward Lawrie Tatum
  • Intelligent design is eminently falsifiable. Specified complexity in general and irreducible complexity in biology are within the theory of intelligent design the key markers of intelligent agency. If it could be shown that biological systems like the bacterial flagellum that are wonderfully complex, elegant, and integrated could have been formed by a gradual Darwinian process (which by definition is non-telic), then intelligent design would be falsified on the general grounds that one doesn't invoke intelligent causes when purely natural causes will do. In that case Occam's razor finishes off intelligent design quite nicely.
    William A. Dembski
  • If we make this readjustment to view as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the common expression of a universal phenomenon, then we could finally ask the truly fundamental question raised by the prospect of Martian fossils. If life originates as a general property of the material universe under certain conditions (probably often realized), then how much can the basic structure and constitution of life vary from place to independent place?
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • The skein of human continuity must often become this tenuous across the centuries (hanging by a thread, in the old cliché), but the circle remains unbroken if I can touch the ink of Lavoisier's own name, written by his own hand. A candle of light, nurtured by the oxygen of his greatest discovery, never burns out if we cherish the intellectual heritage of such unfractured filiation across the ages. We may also wish to contemplate the genuine physical thread of nucleic acid that ties each of us to the common bacterial ancestor of all living creatures, born on Lavoisier's more than 3.5 billion years ago—and never since disrupted, not for one moment, not for one generation. Such a legacy must be worth preserving from all the guillotines of our folly.
    Stephen Jay Gould

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