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Moraxella

American

[mawr-uhk-sel-uh] / ˌmɔr əkˈsɛl ə /

noun

Bacteriology.

a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria, certain species of which, as M. lacunata, are parasitic and pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.

< New Latin (1939), after Victor Morax (1899–1935), Swiss ophthalmologist, who isolated the type species; see -ella

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