Hemophilus

[ hi-mof-uh-luhs ]

nounBacteriology.
  1. a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.

Origin of Hemophilus

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<New Latin (1917); see hemo-, -philous

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