cocci
Americannoun
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Three basic prokaryotic categories are cocci, spirilli, and bacilli.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Like COVID-19, people infected with cocci can have extremely different symptoms.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2022
Note that bacterial shape is not phylum-dependent; bacteria within a phylum may be cocci, rod-shaped, or spiral.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Part of the difficulty is that cocci is “a hundred different diseases,” Dr. Johnson said, depending on where in the body it nests.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2013
There are three common forms of so-called pus cocci, and these are found almost indiscriminately with various types of inflammatory troubles.
From The Story of Germ Life by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)
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