gnotobiotics
noun
(functioning as singular) the study of organisms living in germ-free conditions or when inoculated with known microorganisms
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They wave enigmatically, gnotobiotically, to the President from behind glass panes, so as not to breathe moondust on him.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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