pleuropneumonia-like organism
1pleuropneumonia-like organism — pleu·ro·pneu·mo·nia like organism .līk n MYCOPLASMA (2) …
2pleuropneumonia-like organism — noun Date: 1935 mycoplasma …
3pleuropneumonia-like organism — (= PPLO) See mycoplasmas …
4pleuropneumonia-like organism — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷( ̷ ̷) ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a microorganism of the family Mycoplasmataceae …
5pleu|ro|pneu|mo|nia-like organism — «PLUR oh noo MOHN yuh LYK, MOH nee uh ; nyoo », any one of the filterable microorganisms resembling both viruses and bacteria that cause such diseases as primary atypical pneumonia and pleuropneumonia of cattle; mycoplasma. Abbr: PPLO (no… …
6pleuropneumonia-likeorganism — pleu·ro·pneu·mo·nia like organism (plo͝or ō no͝o mōnʹyə līk , nyo͝o ) n. Abbr. PPLO See mycoplasma. * * * …
7organism — Any living individual, whether plant or animal, considered as a whole. calculated mean o. (CMO) a hypothetical o. whose characters are the means of both the positive and negative characters of the organisms which belong to the same taxon as the… …
8PPLO — • pleuropneumonia like organism …
9Mollicutes — Acholeplasma palmae Scientific classification Kingdom: Bacteria …
10PPLO — noun a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans • Syn: ↑pleuropneumonialike organism • Hypernyms: ↑mycoplasma * * * ¦pē(ˌ)pēˌelˈō noun (plural PPLO) Etymology …