Mycobacterium

Definition: Mycobacterium

Mycobacterium

Noun

1. Rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases.

Specialty Definition: Mycobacterium

Domain	Definition
Health	A genus of gram-positive, aerobic bacteria. Most species are free-living in soil and water, but the major habitat for some is the diseased tissue of warm-blooded hosts. (references)
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Synonym: Mycobacterium

Synonym: mycobacteria (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mycobacterium

English words defined with "mycobacterium": Hansen's disease ♦ leprosy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mycobacterium": AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections, avian tuberculosis, Azithromycin ♦ bovine tuberculosis ♦ Cord Factors ♦ Empyema, Tuberculous ♦ going light ♦ Hawai undersea geo-observatory ♦ Koch OT, Koch's old tuberculin, Koch's OT ♦ Leprostatic Agents, Leprosy, Lepromatous ♦ Mycobacteria, Atypical, mycobacterial disease, Mycobacteriophages, mycobacteriosis, Mycobacterium avium infection, Mycobacterium avium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium bovis infection, Mycobacterium bovis tuberculosis, Mycobacterium Infections, Mycobacterium scrofulaceum ♦ old tuberculin ♦ Paratuberculosis ♦ Rifabutin ♦ Tuberculosis, Avian, Tuberculosis, Bovine, Tuberculosis, Renal, Tuberculosis, Splenic, tuberculostatic. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mycobacterium" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (mycobacterium), Latin (mycobacteria, mycobacterium, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection, Mycobacterium haemophilum, Mycobacterium Infections, Atypical, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium lepraemurium, Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium ulcerans, Mycobacterium xenopi).

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Commercial Usage: Mycobacterium

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Mycobacterium Avium Complex (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Immunity to Mycobacterium (Medical Intelligence Unit) (reference) Mycobacterium Avium-Complex Infection: Progress in Research and Treatment (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, 87) (reference) Mycobacterium Bovis Infection in Animals and Humans (reference) Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine, 54) (reference) Occurrence and Control of Mycobacterium Arium Complex (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Mycobacterium

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	Acid-fast Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus is visible within granuloma. Credit: CDC.		Scanning Electron Micrograph of Mycobacterium chelonae. Credit: CDC.
	Histopathology of chronic inflammatory reaction to Schistosoma mansoni antigen in monkey infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Skin. Credit: CDC.		Though a rare circumstance, Mycobacterium tuberculosis mother-to-child transmission can take place through the blood from different regions of the mother's body, or originating from lesions within the placenta as is the case here. Credit: CDC.
	Text Slide Example, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Mycobacterium

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (references)
		Several different syndromes are caused by Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). (references)
		Meissner G, Anz W. Sources of Mycobacterium avium ccmplex infection resulting in human diseases. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Mycobacterium

"Mycobacterium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mycobacterium" is used about 8 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 (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mycobacterium

Expressions using "mycobacterium": genus Mycobacterium ♦ Mycobacterium avium ♦ Mycobacterium avium Complex ♦ Mycobacterium avium infection ♦ Mycobacterium avium tuberculosis ♦ Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection ♦ Mycobacterium bovis ♦ Mycobacterium bovis infection ♦ Mycobacterium bovis tuberculosis ♦ Mycobacterium chelonae ♦ Mycobacterium fortuitum ♦ Mycobacterium haemophilum ♦ Mycobacterium Infections ♦ Mycobacterium kansasii ♦ Mycobacterium leprae ♦ Mycobacterium lepraemurium ♦ Mycobacterium marinum ♦ Mycobacterium paratuberculosis ♦ Mycobacterium paratuberculosis infection ♦ Mycobacterium phlei ♦ Mycobacterium scrofulaceum ♦ Mycobacterium smegmatis ♦ Mycobacterium tuberculosis ♦ Mycobacterium ulcerans ♦ Mycobacterium vaccae ♦ Mycobacterium xenopi. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mycobacterium

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
mycobacterium tuberculosis	92	mycobacterium kansasii	4
mycobacterium	60	abscessus mycobacterium	4
mycobacterium avium complex	30	mycobacterium phlei	4
mycobacterium avium	27	avium intracellular mycobacterium	4
mycobacterium leprae	22	leprae mycobacterium picture	4
mycobacterium smegmatis	15	mycobacterium chelonae	3
avium intracellulare mycobacterium	11	image mycobacterium tuberculosis	3
mycobacterium marinum	10	mycobacterium tuberculosis picture	2
mycobacterium fortuitum	7	avium complex intracellulare mycobacterium	2
gordonae mycobacterium	6	lymphadenitis mycobacterium	2
mycobacterium bovis	6	mycobacterium tuberculosis tuberculosis	2
mycobacterium paratuberculosis	4	dialysis fortuitum mycobacterium peritoneal	2
		avium mycobacterium paratuberculosis subsp	2
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Modern Translation: Mycobacterium

Language		Translations for "mycobacterium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		分枝杆菌属 (mycobacteria). (various references)

Danish		mykobakterium, mykobakterie. (various references)

Dutch		mycobacterie (mycobacteria). (various references)

Finnish		mykobakteeri. (various references)

French		mycobactérie. (various references)

German		Mykobakterie (mycobacteria). (various references)

Greek		Μυκοβακτηρίδιο. (various references)

Italian		mycobacterium, micobatterio (mycobacteria). (various references)

Pig Latin		ycobacteriummay

Portuguese		micobactéria. (various references)

Spanish		micobacteria (mycobacteria). (various references)

Swedish		Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), tuberkulos (tuberculosis), tbc (mycobacteriosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis), paratuberkulos (bovine pseudotuberculosis, Johne disease, Johne's disease, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis infection, paratuberculosis), lungtuberkulos (phthisic), lungsot (consumption, phthisis), bovin tuberkulos (bovine tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis infection, Mycobacterium bovis tuberculosis). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mycobacterium

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Mycobacterium. (various references)
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Misspellings: Mycobacterium

Misspellings
	"Mycobacterium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Myxobacteria. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mycobacterium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-i-m-m-o-r-t-u-y"
	-4 letters: bacterium, macrocyte, microbeam, microcyte, timocracy.
	-5 letters: accouter, accoutre, acerbity, aerobium, biometry, boracite, combater, cometary, commuter, coremium, coumaric, cruciate, cymatium, immature, maumetry, muricate, mycetoma, obituary, recommit.
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