- Bacterium - Bug - Microbe - microscopic organism - minute life form - Source of infection - That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a
fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under
which an organism appears.
- 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.