salmonella

Inflections of 'salmonella' (n): npl: salmonellae

sal•mo•nel•la n., pl. -nel•lae -nel•las.

Microbiology[countable] a rod-shaped bacterium that enters the digestive tract from contaminated food, causing food poisoning.
Pathology[uncountable] the food poisoning caused by this bacterium.

sal•mo•nel•la n., pl. -nel•lae [Bacteriol.]

Microbiologyany of several rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Salmonella, as S. typhosa, that may enter the digestive tract of humans and other mammals in contaminated food and cause abdominal pains and violent diarrhea.

Neo-Latin (1900), after Daniel English. Salmon (1850–1914), U.south, southern. pathologist; see -ella

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salmonella /ˌsælməˈnɛlə/ n ( pl -lae /-ˌliː/)

any Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobic bacterium of the genus Salmonella, including S. typhosa, which causes typhoid fever, and many species (notably S. enteritidis) that cause food poisoning (salmonellosis): family Enterobacteriaceae

Etymology: 19th Century: New Latin, named after Daniel E. Salmon (1850–1914), US veterinary surgeon

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