| 单词 | bacterial |
| 释义 | bacterial (once / 4715 pages) adj If your illness is caused by bacteria, you can describe it as bacterial. For example, a lung infection that results from being exposed to bacteria is called bacterial pneumonia. Some infections and illnesses are caused by viruses, and they're called viral. Other kinds occur when your immune system is invaded by microorganisms called bacteria, and these are bacterial. You're most likely to hear the adjective bacterial when you're sick. The root word, bakterion, is Greek for "small staff or rod." Bacterial organisms were named this way in the 1830's because the first bacteria observed through a microscope were rod-shaped. WORD FAMILYbacterial: antibacterial, bacterially+/antibacterial: antibacterials/bacteria: bacterial, bacterioid, bacterise, bacterize, bacteroid USAGE EXAMPLESSome facilities started testing scopes for contamination after cleaning and holding them in quarantine for 48 hours to check them again for bacterial growth. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Earlier in the year, it teamed up with a U.S. biotech to develop products aimed at restoring bacterial balance in the digestive system. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) It’s not clear how that translates to humans: Mice eat each other’s droppings when they live together, so they easily share the bacterial wealth. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) adj relating to or caused by bacteria bacterial infection |
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