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Streptococcus

Definition: Streptococcus

Streptococcus

Noun

1. Spherical gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "streptococcus" was first used: 1877. (references)

Etymology: Streptococcus \Strep`to*coc"cus\, noun; plural Streptococci. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression pliant, curved grain, seed.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Streptococcus

DomainDefinition

Health

A genus of gram-positive, coccoid bacteria whose organisms occur in pairs or chains. No endospores are produced. Many species exist as commensals or parasites on man or animals with some being highly pathogenic. A few species are saprophytes and occur in the natural environment. (references)

Medicine

A genus of spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in chains or pairs. They are widely distributed in nature, being important pathogens but often found as normal commensals in the mouth, skin, and intestine of humans and other animals. They are also common contaminants of milk and milk products. Source: European Union. (references)
 A bacterial genus in the family Lactobacillaceae. Source: European Union. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Streptococcus

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Streptococcus are spherical, gram-positive bacteria. They are included among the Firmicutes. These bacteria grow in chains or pairs, with cell division occurring only along one axis. In this sense they are contrasted with Staphylococcus, which divides along several axes, generating a "cluster" of cells, which resemble clusters of grapes.

Members of the genus Streptococcus which cause disease include:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Streptococcus."

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Synonyms: Streptococcus

Synonyms: strep (n), streptococci (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Streptococcus

English words defined with "streptococcus": septic sore throat, strep throat, streptococcal sore throat, streptococcus tonsilitis, streptodornase, streptokinase, streptolysin ♦ throat infection. (references)
Specialty definitions using "streptococcus": Arthritis, Infectious, Aurodox ♦ choken, Conjunctivitis, Bacterial ♦ Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial, Enterococcus, Eye Infections, Bacterial ♦ Lactococcus ♦ Maxillary Sinusitis ♦ Nisin ♦ Picibanil, Pneumococcal Infections, Pneumococcal Vaccines, Pneumonia, Pneumococcal ♦ Streptococcal Infections, Streptococcus equi infection, Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus Phages, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus suis. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Streptococcus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (streptococci, streptococci(pl.), streptococcus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus bovis, Streptococcus oralis, Streptococcus Phages, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus sobrinus, Streptococcus suis), Portuguese (streptococci(pl.), streptococcus).

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Commercial Usage: Streptococcus

DomainTitle

References

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Group B Streptococcus Infection (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Molecular Microbiology and Immunobiology of Streptococcus Mutans (reference)

  • Streptococcus Pneumoniae (reference)

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Streptococcus Pneumoniae Infections (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Streptococcus

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Red blood cells on an agar plate are used to diagnose infection. The plate on the left shows a positive staphyloccus infection. The plate on the right shows a positive streptococcus infection and with the halo effect shows specifically a beta-hemolytic group A. These infections can occur in patients on chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Streptococcus pneumoniae in spinal fluid after treatment with penicillin. FA stain (digitally colorized). Pneumococcus, Streptococci. Credit: CDC.

Scanning Electron Micrograph of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Pneumococcus, Streptococci. Credit: CDC.

Increasing prevalence of high level penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae over time. Streptococci. Credit: CDC.

In the last century, infections by Streptococcus pyogenes, (S. hemolyticus), claimed many lives, especially since the organism was the most important cause of puerperal fever and scarlet fever. Streptococci. Credit: CDC.

Close up of Streptococcus. Credit: USDA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Streptococcus

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Streptococcus pneumoniae. (references)

Schuchat A. Group B streptococcus. (references)

Examples of infection-causing bacteria include "strep" (Streptococcus) and "staph" (Staphylococcus). (references)

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Usage Frequency: Streptococcus

"Streptococcus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Streptococcus" is used about 13 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)84.62%11106,044
Noun (proper)15.38%2245,945
                    Total100.00%13N/A

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

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Expressions: Streptococcus

Expressions using "streptococcus": beta hemolytic streptococcus group B ♦ genus Streptococcus ♦ Streptococcus agalactiae ♦ streptococcus anhemolyticus ♦ Streptococcus bovis ♦ Streptococcus equi ♦ Streptococcus equi infection ♦ Streptococcus mutans ♦ Streptococcus oralis ♦ Streptococcus Phages ♦ Streptococcus pneumoniae ♦ streptococcus pyogenes ♦ Streptococcus sanguis ♦ Streptococcus sobrinus ♦ Streptococcus suis ♦ streptococcus tonsilitis ♦ Streptococcus zooepidemicus. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Streptococcus

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

streptococcus

224

salivarius streptococcus

4

streptococcus pneumoniae

62

beta hemolytic streptococcus

4

streptococcus pyogenes

50

b beta group hemolytic streptococcus

4

group b streptococcus

44

b streptococcus

4

streptococcus mutans

29

picture pneumoniae streptococcus

4

group a streptococcus

28

streptococcus suis

3

faecalis streptococcus

21

saliva streptococcus y

3

streptococcus agalactiae

20

picture pyogenes streptococcus

3

streptococcus viridans

19

aureus streptococcus

3

lactis streptococcus

18

beta hemolítico streptococcus

3

streptococcus pneumonia

18

pyrogenes streptococcus

3

streptococcus bacterium

12

c group streptococcus

3

streptococcus thermophilus

11

streptococcus uberis

2

streptococcus bovis

9

bacterium picture streptococcus

2

streptococcus infection

6

bacterium pyogenes strep streptococcus throat

2

picture streptococcus

6

hemolytic streptococcus

2

milleri streptococcus

5

streptococcus oralis

2

streptococcus equi

5

child streptococcus urine

2

beta streptococcus

4

fish in streptococcus

2

mitis streptococcus

4

g group streptococcus

2

alpha hemolytic streptococcus

4

mutans streptococcus transmission

2
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Modern Translation: Streptococcus

Language Translations for "streptococcus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏المكور العقدي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стрептокок (strep). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"球菌 (streptococci). (various references)

   

Danish

  

streptokok, streptococcus (streptococci(pl.)). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Streptococcus (streptococci(pl.)). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

streptokokki (streptococc|us), Streptococcus (streptococci(pl.)). (various references)

   

French

  

streptocoque (streptococci(pl.)). (various references)

   

German

  

Bakteriengattung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

STREPTOCOCCUS (streptococci(pl.)), στρεπτόκοκκοσ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

streptococco (streptococci(pl.)). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

連鎖状球菌 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

れ"さじょうきゅうき". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eptococcusstray

   

Portuguese

  

streptococcus (streptococci(pl.)), estreptococo. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стрептококк (streptococci). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estreptococo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

streptokocker (streptococci(pl.)), streptokock. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

streptokok. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стрептокок. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Streptococcus

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

kokkos, streptos. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

streptococcus. (various references)

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Misspellings: Streptococcus

Misspellings

"Streptococcus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cryptococcus, steptococcus, streptococcous, streptococus, strptococcus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Streptococcus"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "streptococcus" (pronounced stre'ptukô"kus)
4-ô" k u sraucous.
3-k u sabacus, amicus, carcass, caucus, circus, coccus, crocus, discus, focus, fracas, hocus, locus, markkas, mucous, mucus, Orcas, refocus, ruckus, viscous, yarmulkes.

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Anagrams: Streptococcus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-c-e-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-t-u"

-4 letters: octopuses, outscores, stuccoers.

-5 letters: cocottes, corpuses, crocuses, crosscut, crustose, oestrous, outcrops, outcross, outports, outposts, outpress, outscore, outserts, postures, prosects, protects, protests, scoopers, scooters, scouters, scutters, spotters, spouters, sprucest, sputters, stoopers, stuccoer, stuccoes, topcross, tutoress.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions 		9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations 		13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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