pleuropneumonia-like organism

pleuropneumonia-like organism
pleu·ro·pneu·mo·nia-like organism -.līk- n MYCOPLASMA (2)

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  • pleuropneumonia-like organism — noun Date: 1935 mycoplasma …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pleuropneumonia-like organism — (= PPLO) See mycoplasmas …   Dictionary of molecular biology

  • pleuropneumonia-like organism — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷( ̷ ̷) ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a microorganism of the family Mycoplasmataceae …   Useful english dictionary

  • pleu|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… …   Useful english dictionary

  • pleuropneumonia-likeorganism — pleu·ro·pneu·mo·nia like organism (plo͝or ō no͝o mōnʹyə līk , nyo͝o ) n. Abbr. PPLO See mycoplasma. * * * …   Universalium

  • organism — 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… …   Medical dictionary

  • PPLO — • pleuropneumonia like organism …   Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations

  • Mollicutes — Acholeplasma palmae Scientific classification Kingdom: Bacteria …   Wikipedia

  • PPLO — 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 …   Useful english dictionary

  • Mycoplasma — The mycoplasma are a very large group of bacteria. There are more than 70 types. Mycoplasma hominis and Mycoplasma pneumoniae are among the dozen types of mycoplasma that occur in humans. Mycoplasma hominis is a common inhabitant of the vagina… …   Medical dictionary

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