Bacteriology
[bæk,tɪərɪ'ɒlədʒɪ] or [bæk'tɪrɪ'ɑlədʒi]
Definition
(noun.) the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease.
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Definition
(n.) The science relating to bacteria.
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Examples
- Louis Pasteur’s work, however, marks the first definite and important results in the study of bacteriology, and he is the father of the germ theory of disease. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Every hospital, board of health, and organized medical and sanitary body predicates its laws and modes of treatment upon the principles of bacteriology. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He applied the principles of bacteriology to the treatment of puerperal fev er, which in 1864 had rendered fatal 310 cases out of 1350 confinements in the Maternité in Paris. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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