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Strep throat bacteria
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cocci
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See coccus
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spherical-shaped bacteria, plural of Latin coccus , from Greek kokkos "berry" (see cocco- ).
Usage examples of cocci.
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.