bacterium

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复数: bacteria;

bacterium: bacterium: [19] Bacterium was coined in the 1840s from Greek baktérion, a diminutive of báktron ‘stick’, on the basis that the originally discovered bacteria were rod-shaped. At first it was sometimes anglicized to bactery, but the Latin form has prevailed. Related, but a later introduction, is bacillus [19]: this is a diminutive of Latin baculum ‘stick’, and the term was again inspired by the microorganism’s shape. Latin baculum is also responsible, via Italian bacchio and its diminutive form bacchetta, for the long French loaf, the baguette.
=> bacillus, baguette, débacle, imbecile
bacterium (n.): c. 1848, singular of bacteria (q.v.).

2. Treatment is supplemented with a course of antibiotics to kill the bacterium.: 治疗期间辅以一个疗程的抗生素注射来杀灭细菌。

3. They have isolated the bacterium in its pure form.: 他们已经把细菌分离出来,使它们处于较纯的状态.

4. A bacterium is identified as the cause for his duodenal ulcer.: 一种细菌被断定为造成他十二指肠溃疡的根源.

5. Classification of the Haemophilus - like bacterium has been only tentatively determined.: 在分类上把这种细菌只是暂时性地作为类嗜血杆菌.