- Bacterium - Bug - General manager coming to grips with hesitation for initial stage - German ripping off an original source - Microbe - microscopic organism - minute life form
- Animal disease - Cattle disease - A carbuncle. - A malignant pustule. - A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis),
resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.] - An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed
to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the
spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted
to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled
with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.
- Clot - Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a
pump or syringe. - A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being
brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a
clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat,
or a microscopic organism.