smooth colony
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smooth colony — a colony that has a smooth, glistening, rounded, regular surface; this is the form normally shown by bacterial colonies. Cf. rough c. Called also S c … Medical dictionary
smooth — smüth adj forming or being a colony with a flat shiny surface usu. made up of organisms that form no chains or filaments, show characteristic internal changes, and tend toward marked increase in capsule formation and virulence used of dissociated … Medical dictionary
colony — 1. A group of cells growing on a solid nutrient surface, each arising from the multiplication of an individual cell; a clone. 2. A group of people with similar interests, living in a particular location or area. [L. colonia, a c.] daughter c. a… … Medical dictionary
S colony — smooth c … Medical dictionary
R colony — rough colony a colony that has a rough, wrinkled, granular, flattened surface. Cf. smooth c … Medical dictionary
pneumococcus — pneumococcal /nooh meuh kok euhl, nyooh /, pneumococcic /nooh meuh kok sik, nyooh /, pneumococcous /nooh meuh kok euhs, nyooh /, adj. /nooh meuh kok euhs, nyooh /, n., pl. pneumococci / kok suy, see/. a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing… … Universalium
S — 1. Abbreviation for sacral vertebra (S1–S5); spherical, spherical lens; Svedberg unit. 2. Symbol for siemens; sulfur; entropy in thermodynamics; substrate in the Michaelis … Medical dictionary
s — Abbreviation of L. sinister, left; L. semis, half; second; as a subscript, denotes steady state. Abbreviation for L. sine, without. Symbol for selection coefficient; sedimentation coefficient. * * * apparent power; in electrocardiography, a… … Medical dictionary
S — • apparent power; • in electrocardiography, a negative deflection that follows an R wave [wave]; • entropy; • exposure time; • half [Lat. semis]; • left [Lat. sinister]; • mean dose per unit cumulated activity; • the midpoint of the sella turcica … Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations
United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… … Universalium
cañada — /keuhn yah deuh, yad euh/, n. Chiefly Western U.S. 1. a dry riverbed. 2. a small, deep canyon. [1840 50; < Sp, equiv. to cañ(a) CANE + ada n. suffix] * * * Canada Introduction Canada Background: A land of vast distances and rich natural resources … Universalium
