See Also: El Tor vibrio(medicine)
vibrio(dictionary)
vibrio(medicine)
vibrio(encyclopedia)
Vibrio fluvialis(medicine)
Nasik vibrio(medicine)
vibrio parahaemolyticus(medicine)
vibrio infections(medicine)
vibrio cholerae(medicine)
Vibrio vulnificus(medicine)

vibrio (iou)



vibrio noun. . M19.
[mod. Latin Vibrio (see below), from Latin vibrare VIBRATE, after French vibrion.]
1. Zoology. A minute nematode worm of the former genus Vibrio. Only in M19.
2. Medicine & Bacteriology. A motile water-borne Gram-negative bacterium of the widespread genus Vibrio or a related genus, usu. occurring as curved flagellated rods, and including pathogens causing cholera, gastro-enteritis, and septicaemia. Also more widely, any curved rod-shaped bacterium. M19.
vibrio'cidal adjective (Medicine) destructive to vibrios M20.
vibrioid adjective belonging or allied to the genus Vibrio; of a curved rod-shape with a slight helical twist: M19.
vibri'onic adjective (now rare) of, pertaining to, or caused by vibrios M19.
vibri'osis noun, pl. -oses , Veterinary Medicine infection with, or a disease caused by, vibrios M20.