sarcina

[sahr-suh-nuh]

noun, plural sar·ci·nas, sar·ci·nae

[sahr-suh-nee] /ˈsɑr səˌni/. Bacteriology.

any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.

Origin of sarcina

1835–45; < New Latin, Latin: bundle

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Examples from the Web for sarcina

Historical Examples of sarcina

Used internally for sarcina ventriculi, and externally as an application in skin diseases of fungous origin.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II
Arnold Cooley
If in examining a preparation the sarcina grouping appears, that shows three-plane division.
The Fundamentals of Bacteriology
Charles Bradfield Morrey
If there are no sarcina, but tetrads or staphylococci (rarely merismopedia), then the division is in two planes.
The Fundamentals of Bacteriology
Charles Bradfield Morrey
Sarcina, sar-sī′na, n. a genus of schizomycetous fungi, in which the cocci divide in three planes forming cubical clumps:—pl.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)
Various

sarcina in Medicine

Sarcina

[sär′sə-nə]

n.

A genus of anaerobic gram-positive bacteria including both saprophytic and facultatively parasitic species.

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