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Bacterial

adjective

Relating to or caused by bacteria.

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"Bacterial" Quotes from Famous Books

... used in the treatment of superficial and localized inflammation are heat, cold, massage and counterirritation. Heat is indicated in all inflammations, excepting when of bacterial origin. It stimulates the circulation and reabsorption of the inflammatory exudates, and by relaxing the tissues helps greatly in relieving pain. Cold is more effective in the highly acute and septic (suppurative) ...

— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.

... Typhoid fever - bacterial disease spread through contact with food or water contaminated by fecal matter or sewage; victims exhibit sustained high fevers; left untreated, mortality rates can ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... bacterial diseases usually affect the whole plant, or at least large portions of it; and the seat of attack is commonly not so much in the individual leaves as in the stems, the sources of food supply being thereby cut off from the foliage. The symptoms ...

— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey

... work, and they develop in the can. That results in a 'blown can'—the ends bulge a little bit. On opening, a gas escapes, the food has a bad odour and a bad taste. Sometimes people say that the tin and lead poison them; in practically all cases the poisoning is of bacterial, not metallic, origin. Mr. Godwin may have died of poisoning, probably did. But it was ptomaine poisoning. The blown cans which I have ...

— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

Words linked to "Bacterial" : bacteria, subacute bacterial endocarditis, bacterium, bacterial toxin