Question | Answer |
Bacilli | Bacteria that have a rod shape |
Cocci | Bacteria that have a round shape. |
Colony | A mass of bacteria growing on a solid culture medium that have arisen from the mutiplication of a signal bacterium |
Contagious | capable of being transmitted directly or indirectly from one person to another |
Culture | the propagation of a mass of microorganisms in a laboratory culture medium |
Culture medium | a mixture of nutrients on which microorganisms are grown in the laboratory |
False negative | a test result denoting that a condition is absent when it is actually present |
False Positive | a test result denoting that a condition is present when it is actually absent |
Fastidious | extremely delicate difficult to culture & involving specialized growth requirements |
immunization | the process of becoming protected from a disease through vaccination |
incubate | in microbiology, the act of placing a culture in a chamber (incubator) that provides optimal growth requiements for the multiplication of the organisms, such as the proper temperature, humidity, & darkness |
Incubation period | the interval of time between the invasion by a pathogenic microorganism & the appearacne of first symptoms of the disease |
Infectious disease | a disease caused by a pathogen that produces harmful effects on its host |
Inoculate | to introduce microorganisms into a culture medium for growth & multiplication |
Microbiology | the scientific study of microorganisms & their activities |
Mucous membrane | a membrane lining body passages or cavities that open to the outside |
Normal flora | harmless, nonpathogenic microorganisms that normally reside in many parts of the body but do not cause disease |
resistance | the natural ability of an organism to remain unaffected by harmful sutstances in its environment |
sequela | a morbid (secondary) condition occurring as a result of a less serious primary infection |
smear | material spread on a slide for microscope examination |
specimen | a small sample or part taken from the body to show the nature of the whole |
spirilla | bacteria that have a spiral or curved shape |
streaking | in microbiology, the process of inoculating a culture to provide for the growth of colonies on the surface of a solid medium; |
Streptolysin | an exotoxin produced by beta-hemolytic streptococci, which completely hemolyzed red blood cells |
Susceptible | easily affected, lacking resistance |