Moraxella

[ mawr-uh k-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.

Origin of Moraxella

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

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Medicine definitions for moraxella

Moraxella

[ môr′ăk-sĕl′ə ]

n.

A genus of aerobic nonmotile bacteria, containing gram-negative cocci or short rods, that are parasitic on the mucous membranes of humans and other mammals; the type species, M. lacunata, causes conjunctivitis in humans.