Clostridium Synonyms

klŏ-strĭdē-əm
Spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. clostridia

Words Related to Clostridium

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. perfringens
  2. tetani
  3. shigella
  4. corynebacterium
  5. novyi
  6. difficile
  7. toxigenic
  8. streptococcus
  9. klebsiella
  10. campylobacter
  11. e-coli
  12. parahaemolyticus

Clostridium Sentence Examples

  • Only a few genera of bacteria such as Bacillus and Clostridium are capable of forming endospores.

  • The bacterium, Clostridium pasteurianum, common in most soils, is able to utilize free nitrogen under anaerobic conditions, and an organism known as Azotobacter chroococcum and some others closely allied to it, have similar powers which they can exercise under aerobic conditions.

  • Schizomycetes such as Clostridium, Plectridium, &c., where the sporiferous cells enlarge, bear out the same argument, and we must not forget that there are extremely minute " yeasts," easily mistaken for Micrococci, and that yeasts occasionally form only one spore in the cell.

  • Various stages in the development of the endogenous spores in a Clostridium - the small letters indicate the order.

  • Clostridium - one cell contains two spores.

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