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Shigella dysenteriae (medicine) and order of magnitude (oh)


Shigella dysenteriae (medicine)


shigella dysenteriae


A species of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that is extremely pathogenic and causes severe dysentery. Infection with this organism often leads to ulceration of the intestinal epithelium.


order of magnitude (oh)



plural orders of magnitude
n [C]
if something is an order of magnitude greater or smaller than something else, it is ten times greater or smaller in size or amount
the scale of the size of something
::That was a problem but this crisis is of a different order of magnitude.