Vibrio

Definition: Vibrio

Vibrio

Noun

1. Curved rodlike motile bacterium.

Date "vibrio" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Etymology: Vibrio \Vib"ri*o\, noun; plural English Vibrios, from Latin expression Vibriones. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression vibrare to vibrate, to move by undulations.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Vibrio

Domain	Definitions
Health	A genus of Vibrionaceae, made up of short, slightly curved, motile, gram-negative rods. Various species produce cholera and other gastrointestinal disorders as well as abortion in sheep and cattle. (references)
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Synonym: Vibrio

Synonym: vibrion (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vibrio

English words defined with "vibrio": Butyric fermentation ♦ genus Vibrio ♦ Vibrio comma, Vibrio fetus, Vibriones, vibrionic, Vibrios. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vibrio": Cholera Toxin, Cholera Vaccines ♦ Food-borne illnesses ♦ Inovirus ♦ Microbial Collagenase ♦ Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio cholerae bacterium, Vibrio Infections, Vibrio parahaemolyticus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Vibrio

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Vibrio Parahaemolyticus Infection (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Cholera and the Ecology of Vibrio Cholerae (reference) The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Vibrio Vulnificus Infection (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Vibrio

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	Vibrio cholerae is transmitted to humans through the ingestion of contaminated food or water, and produces a cholera toxin, which acts on the intestinal mucosa, and causes severe diarrhea.Credit: CDC.		Vibrio cholerae. Leifson flagella stain (digitally colorized).Credit: CDC.
	Cholera is caused by the Vibrio cholerae bacterium that lives among zooplankton in brackish waters, and in estuaries where rivers meet the sea. It infects humans through ingestion of such contaminated water.Credit: CDC.		Dr. Yadollah Zafari ... is lecturing ... on variants of the cholera vibrio. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Abcede..
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Non-Fiction Usage: Vibrio

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Levine WC, Griffin PM, Gulf Coast Vibrio Working Group. (references)
		Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 or O139 that produces cholera toxin. (references)
		Vibrio organisms can be isolated from cultures of stool, wound, or blood. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Vibrio

"Vibrio" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vibrio" is used about 2 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%	2	245,945

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

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Expressions: Vibrio

Expressions using "vibrio": genus Vibrio ♦ Vibrio cholerae ♦ Vibrio cholerae bacterium ♦ vibrio comma ♦ vibrio fetus ♦ Vibrio Infections ♦ Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vibrio

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
vibrio	27
vibrio cholera	26
vibrio cholerae	21
vibrio vulnificus	18
fischeri vibrio	9
vibrio parahaemolyticus	7
alginolyticus vibrio	5
cholerae colera vibrio	5
harveyi vibrio	4
bacterium vibrio	3
parahemolyticus vibrio	3
natriegens vibrio	2
pectinidae vibrio	2
anguillarum vibrio	2
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Modern Translations: Vibrio

Language		Translations for "vibrio"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		вибрион. (various references)

Danish		vibrion. (various references)

Dutch		vibrion. (various references)

Finnish		vibrio. (various references)

French		vibrion. (various references)

German		Vibrion. (various references)

Greek		δονάκιο. (various references)

Hungarian		vibrió baktérium. (various references)

Italian		bacillo (bacillus, rod-shaped bacillus). (various references)

Pig Latin		ibriovay

Portuguese		vibrião. (various references)

Russian		вибрион (vibriones). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrsta bakterije u obliku zareza. (various references)

Spanish		vibrio. (various references)

Swedish		vibrion. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Vibrio

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vibrio": vibrioid, vibrion, vibriones, vibrionic, vibrions, vibrios, vibrioses, vibriosis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vibrio"

Words rhyming with "vibrio" (pronounced 'Vib"ri*o'): Barrio, Carriboo, Curio, Durio, Furioso, impresario, Lothario, Oratorio, scenario, Turio. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Vibrio

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-i-i-o-r-v"
	-1 letter: oribi.
	-2 letters: brio.
	-3 letters: bio, bro, obi, orb, rib, rob.
	-4 letters: bi, bo, or.
	Words containing the letters "b-i-i-o-r-v"
	+1 letter: vibrion, vibrios.
	+2 letters: vibrioid, vibrions, vibronic.
	+3 letters: ivorybill, vibration, vibriones, vibrionic, vibrioses, vibriosis.
	+4 letters: ivorybills, riboflavin, vibrations.
	+5 letters: ambiversion, behaviorism, behaviorist, herbivories, misbehavior, overbidding, overbilling, overboiling, prohibitive, riboflavins, verbosities, vibrational.
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