Crossword clues for anaerobic
anaerobic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anaerobic \An*a`["e]*rob"ic\, a. [Pref. an-not + a["e]robic.]
(Biol.) Not requiring air or oxygen for life; -- applied especially to those microbes to which free oxygen is unnecessary; ana["e]robiotic; -- opposed to a["e]robic.
(Biol.) Relating to, or like, ana["e]robies; ana["e]robiotic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Without oxygen; especially of an environment or organism. 2 Of or relating to an anaerobe.
WordNet
adj. living or active in the absence of free oxygen; "anaerobic bacteria" [syn: anaerobiotic] [ant: aerobic]
not aerobic; "isometric exercises are anaerobic" [ant: aerobic]
Wikipedia
Anaerobic means "living without air", as opposed to aerobic which means "living in the presence of air." Anaerobic may also refer to:
- Anaerobic adhesive, a bonding agent that does not cure in the presence of air
- Anaerobic clarigester, an anaerobic digester that treats dilute biodegradable feedstocks and allows different retention times for solids and liquids
- Anaerobic contact process, an anaerobic digester with a set of reactors in series
- Anaerobic digestion, the use of anaerobic bacteria to breakdown waste, with biogas as a valuable byproduct
- Hypoxia (environmental) (anaerobic environment), an environment with little or no available oxygen
- Anaerobic exercise, exercise intense enough to cause lactate to form, used in non-endurance sports
- Anaerobic filter, an anaerobic digester with a tank containing a filter medium where anaerobic microbes can establish themselves
- Anaerobic lagoon, used to dispose of animal waste, particularly that of cows and pigs
- Anaerobic organism, any organism whose redox metabolism does not depend on free oxygen
- Anaerobic respiration, respiration in the absence of oxygen, using some other molecule as the final electron acceptor
- Anammox, anaerobic ammonium oxidation, a globally important microbial process of the nitrogen cycle
Usage examples of "anaerobic".
Tony May is analyzing the genomes of archaebacterial species that inhabit the hot, anaerobic waters of hydrothermal vents and deep rocks, looking for highly conserved genes that may have belonged to the universal ancestor of all life on Earth.
If the substance in question here was even somewhat volatile, as long as it was preserved in an anaerobic substance like honey, which was well known to the ancients, or sealed within a container crafted from a nonporous material like faience, gold, or glass, it could remain quite deadly and still be quite dangerous today.
The first wave would carry only anaerobic and photoautotrophic organisms, simple forms of life that required no oxygen and derived energy from sunlight.
The substance in which the young umbrella trees had been planted was a zoogloea, a glutinous mass of one-celled vegetables and somewhat larger anaerobic animal life that fed on the vegetables.
Although clinical trials had not yet even begun, preliminary tests had indicated that Ribomax, a genetically engineered RNA molecule, was effective against a wide range of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, including pathogens of the genera Clostridium, Staphylococcus, and Streptococcus.
The corpse is a paradise of luminescent bacteria, anaerobic clostridia, penicilliumall working their own active, grimy little bodies into action, where they oxidize fat, break down protein and carbohydrates.
The article had focused on some unusual infections afflicting abdominal-wound patients at the Willowbrook where the principal pathogen had been Enterococcus faecalis, part of a community of anaerobic bacteria found in the lower digestive tract.
The little runabout turned down an avenue lined with feathery anaerobic palm trees and pink statuary and bounced up a flight of broad marble steps into a turntable-style airlock.
He lifted the instrument, with his glove wiped away the clay smeared on the glass, moved the setting to anaerobic, and trained the scope on the rough surface.
Some retreated into the oozy, anaerobic world of bogs and lake bottoms.
Nubium was ideally suited to the growth of anaerobic bacteria, soil organisms, phage, rare moulds, and all those microscopic life forms, essential to medicine and industry, which required airless culture.
Dan could not see the entire face, but from what he could see of the neck and arms, the body had apparently mummified in the cold, dry, anaerobic atmosphere within the ship.
The cyanobacteria kept the hydrogen and excreted the oxygen, polluting Earth's atmosphere with it (from the point of view of the other, anaerobic, bacterial.
Both of these two bacteria species are obligate anaerobic bacteria, meaning that they live only under conditions without oxygen.
It reminded her of hot summer afternoons spent turning the compost pile, of anaerobic bacteria, and of scrubbing the algae out of the water troughs.