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Mod E Unit I Vocab
Mod E I Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Smear | bacteria spread on a surface as a microscope slide or a culture medium. |
Smear Fixation | holding a bacterial specimen to a slide |
Sputum | substance expelled by coughing |
Stool | evacuation of the bowels |
Streak Culture | spreading of the bacteria by drawing a wire across the medium |
Swab | cotton on the end of a slender stick used for applying or collecting |
Viable | capable of living |
Pure Culture | culture of a single form of microorganisms, uncontaminated |
Serological | pertaining to the study of the serum component of the blood |
Microscopic | visible only by using a microscope |
Negative Culture | culture that fails to reveal the suspected organisms |
Pathogens | disease producing microorganisms |
Positive Culture | culture that reveals the suspected organism |
Culture | propagation of microorganisms in special media that are conclusive to their growth |
Culturette | self contained culturing packet system |
Cytology | science that deals with the formation structure & function of cells |
Gelatin Culture | culture of bacteria on a gelatin medium, such as agar |
Histology | study of the microscopic structure of tissue |
Incubation | period of culture development |
Inoculate | to add, implant or introduce another material; infective, immune, vaccine into another |
Media | substance on which microorganisms may grow: broth, gelatin, agar. |
Agglutination | clumping |
Aerobes | microorganism that lives & grows in a free oxygen environment |
Anerobes | a microorganism that lives & grows in the absence of oxygen |
Microbes | a microorganism, including bacteria, protozoa, algae, fungus and defined viruses. |