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The Collaborative International Dictionary
bacteriophage \bacteriophage\ n. sing. & pl. a virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.
Note: Bacteriophages are of many varieties, generally specific for one or a narrow range of bacterial species, and almost every bacterium is susceptible to at least one bacteriophage. They may have DNA or RNA as their genetic component. Certain types of bacteriophage, called
temperate bacteriophage, may infect but not kill their host bacteria, residing in and replicating either as a plasmid or integrated into the host genome. Under certain conditions, a resident temperate phage may become induced to multiply rapidly and vegetatively, killing and lysing its host bacterium, and producing multiple progeny. The lambda phage of Eschericia coli, much studied in biochemical and genetic research, is of the temperate type.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
virus that destroys bacteria, 1917, an abbreviated form of bacteriophage.
Wiktionary
n. (context microbiology virology English) A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.
WordNet
n. a virus that is parasitic in bacteria; it uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria [syn: bacteriophage]
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ "Phage" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. The episode originally aired on February 6, 1995 on the UPN network. The episode was directed by Winrich Kolbe. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet and Maquis crew of the starship USS Voyager after they were stranded in the Delta Quadrant far from the rest of the Federation.
Phage is the shortened form of bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria.
Phage (from Greek φαγεῖν phagein, 'to eat') may also refer to:
In virology:
- Enterobacteria phage T2, virulent bacteriophage of the T4-like viruses genus
- Enterobacteria phage T4, phage that infects E. coli bacteria
- Lambda phage, temperate bacteriophage that infects Escherichia coli
- M13 phage, filamentous bacteriophage composed of circular single stranded DNA
- P22 phage, virus that infects salmonella
- Phi-X174 phage, the first organism to have its genome sequenced
- Pseudomonas phage Φ6, the best-studied bacteriophage of the family Cystoviridae
- T7 phage, phage capable of infecting susceptible bacterial cells
In molecular biology:
- Phage display, test to screen for protein interactions by integrating multiple genes from a gene bank into phages
- Phage ecology, the study of the interaction of bacteriophage with their environments
- Phage monographs, books published on the topic of bacteriophage
- Phage therapy, alternative disease treatment to antibiotics
In cellular biology:
- Phagocyte, a cell that ingests foreign cells, viruses, and debris
- Macrophage, a large phagocyte that originates from a monocyte
In other fields:
- "Phage" (Star Trek: Voyager), the fifth episode of the television series Star Trek: Voyager
- Phage (comics), supervillain from the Spider-Man comic books
- Phages, monsters of the day in the final season of Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars
- Phages (EP), an EP by Canadian rock group The Most Serene Republic
- Phages, or Knights of Avalon, are generically-engineered humans in the novel Dances on the Snow
Usage examples of "phage".
For her part, the adversary, Phage, stood still, one foot slightly ahead of the other.
Even as the shafts flew, trembling with the force of the throw, Phage grasped empty air again.
The head surged down toward Phage with speed enough to split her from skull to navel.
Braids always seemed that way to Phage, a stark ambivalence-two conflicting truths overlaid.
The servants followed Braids and Phage into a room that was cavernous, though it felt small.
During any other audience, the hand attendants performed every manual task for the First, but not when Phage came calling.
In the primordial waters, Phage thought she glimpsed her brother, struggling away across a sandy waste.
With a powerful overhand swing, Phage hurled a flaming flask over the gates.
While fire turned the village to ash, Phage did the same to the villagers.
Reaching Phage, the crone bowed her white head and executed a crusty curtsey.
Here was a woman who understood Phage without hours of fruitless discussion.
With this new mouthpiece and earpiece among her taskmasters, Phage would know everything.
Most folk were nauseated by his presence, but Phage was renewed by it.
As the First made his way past rot holes in the plank, Phage went to her knees.
They bowed their heads, but Phage could feel their hot glares on her back, as surely as the cold glare of the First on her face.