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Definition: Escherichia |
EscherichiaNoun1. A genus of enteric bacteria. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria whose organisms occur in the lower part of the intestine of warm-blooded animals. The species are either nonpathogenic or opportunistic pathogens. (references) |
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Crosswords: Escherichia |
| English words defined with "escherichia": Escherichia coli ♦ genus Escherichia ♦ intestinal flora. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "escherichia": Adhesins, Escherichia coli ♦ calf scours, Causes of gastroenteritis, Colicins, Coliphages ♦ enteric colibacillosis of calves, enteric colibacillosis of lambs, enteric colibacillosis of piglets, Escherichia coli Infections, Escherichia coli O157, Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system, Escherichia coli Vaccines ♦ GroEL Protein, GroES Protein ♦ Lac Operon ♦ N-Formylmethionine ♦ piglet diarrhoea, piglet scours ♦ Shiga Toxins, Shiga-Like Toxin I, Shiga-Like Toxin II ♦ white scours. (references) |
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 | Escherichia coli in spinal fluid. FA stain (digitally colorized).Credit: CDC. |  | E. coli O157:H7 is one of hundreds of strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli, which can cause severe bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps, and in some cases even death.Credit: CDC. |
 | Escherichia coli is the most common aerobic bacteria found in the large intestine of healthy individuals, and accounts for 90-95% of all the aerobic bacteria.Credit: CDC. |  | Escherichia coli is the most common aerobic bacteria found in the large intestine of healthy individuals, and accounts for 90-95% of all the aerobic bacteria.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Dupont HL, Mathewson JJ. Escherichia coli diarrhea. (references) | |
The rOspA protein is expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. (references) | ||
Escherichia coli is a bacterium that normally lives in the intestines of humans and other animals. (references) | ||
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| "Escherichia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Escherichia" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
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Expressions using "escherichia": Escherichia coli ♦ Escherichia coli infection ♦ Escherichia coli Infections ♦ Escherichia coli O157 ♦ Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system ♦ Escherichia coli Vaccines ♦ genus Escherichia. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "escherichia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 埃希氏菌属. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilbagemutation hos Escherichia coli i tryptophan (Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system), colibacilliose (colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | escherichia coli (escherichia coli), tryptofaanterugmutatiesysteem van Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system), colibacillosis (colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection), colibacillose (colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Escherichia coli-ruokamyrkytys (escherichia coli food-borne infection), kolibasilloosi (colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Escherichia coli entérohémorragique (enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli), toxi-infection due Escherichia coli (escherichia coli food-borne infection), système de réversion au tryptophane d'Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system), infection Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli infection), colibacillose (Escherichia coli infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Escherichia Coli Tryptophan-Reversionssystem (Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κολιβακιλλίωση (colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection), γαστροεντερίτιδα από κολοβακτηρίδιο του εντέρου (escherichia coli food-borne infection), εσχεριχία του κώλου (escherichia coli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sistema di reversione del triptofano in Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system), colibacillosi (colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 大腸菌 (colon bacterium, Escherichia coli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いちょうき" (colon bacterium, Escherichia coli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | escherichiaay sistema de reversão de triptofano da Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system), colibacilose (calf scours, colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection, white scours). (various references) sistema de reversión del triptofan de Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli tryptophan reversion system), colibacilosis (colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection). (various references) kolibakterie (bacterium coli, coliform organism, escherichia coli), kolibacillos (colibacillosis, colibacteriosis, Escherichia coli infection), colibakterie (escherichia coli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Escherichia coli. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-h-i-i-r-s" | |
-4 letters: cahiers, carices, cashier, cherish, chichis, creches, reaches, rhachis, scraich, screech. | |
-5 letters: achier, aeries, arches, ashier, caches, cahier, caries, caseic, cercis, cerias, cerise, chairs, chaise, chares, chaser, cheers, chicer, chichi, crease, creche, creesh, crisic, easier, ericas, eschar, haeres, hearse, heishi, ischia, rachis, recces, rehash, riches, scarce, search, seiche. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 73 63 68 65 72 69 63 68 69 61 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110011 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E s c h e r i c h i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0073 0063 0068 0065 0072 0069 0063 0068 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3985697471847569747567 |
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