Spherical bacterium

Usage examples of coccus.

During the present year, however, in the month of July, I came across a community with an unusually large stock of slaves, and I observed a few slaves mingled with their masters leaving the nest, and marching along the same road to a tall Scotch-fir-tree, twenty-five yards distant, which they ascended together, probably in search of aphides or cocci.

Amoxicillin, erythromycin, tetracycline--anything to zap those little cocci boogers?

Koch had studied them carefully and found them to be veritable menageries of hideous scum-forming bacilli and strange cocci and other foreign creatures that had no business there.

Amoxicillin, erythromycin, tetracycline--anything to zap those little cocci boogers?

There were programmed bacteria of every size and shape, eubacteria, spherical cocci, and spirochetes with their whiplike tails.

The morning came when the Hofrat in his sprightly phraseology announced that not only on the first culture, but on all the others as well, cocci had subsequently grown, in large quantities.

Fearing the formation of an abscess somewhere inside the missile track, Ford took a sample of the exudate drained from the entry wound and was able to identify a gram-positive coccus, which the lab later narrowed down to Staphylococcus aureus through fluorescent antibody staining and a blood plasma coagulation test.

Lubbock has shown a degree of variability in these main nerves in Coccus, which may almost be compared to the irregular branching of the stem of a tree.

It was based in an evaporative solvent which was identified as a coal-tar derivative, but the purified sap was from an ancient Coccus lacca insect extinct for millennia.

Frammenti di osso spuntavano come cocci di stoviglie dalla massa in­forme della sua mente e dei suoi sensi.