microbiology

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microbiology

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Etymology

From micro- +‎ biology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmʌɪkrə(ʊ)bʌɪˈɒlədʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

microbiology (uncountable)

2. (biology) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.

   Alternative form: mbio (clipped compound)

   Hypernyms: biology, bioscience

   Holonyms: biology, bioscience

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:microbiology

Derived terms

• astromicrobiology
• electromicrobiology
• geomicrobiology
• palaeomicrobiology
• paleomicrobiology
• sociomicrobiology
• soil microbiology
• xenomicrobiology

Related terms

• microbiologically
• microbiologic, microbiological
• microbiologist
• molecular biologist
• molecular biology

Translations

branch of biology dealing with microorganisms

Albanian: mikrobiologji (sq) f Armenian: մանրէաբանություն (hy) (manrēabanutʻyun) Asturian: microbioloxía f Bashkir: микробиология (mikrobiologiya) Bengali: অণুজীব বিজ্ঞান (onujib biggên) Burmese: အဏုဇီဝဗေဒ (a.nu.jiwa.beda.) Catalan: microbiologia f Chinese: Mandarin: 微生物學 / 微生物学 (zh) (wéishēngwùxué) Chuvash: микробиологи (mikrobiologi) Czech: mikrobiologie (cs) f Danish: mikrobiologi (da) c Dutch: microbiologie (nl) f Esperanto: mikrobiologio Estonian: mikrobioloogia (et) Finnish: mikrobiologia (fi) French: microbiologie (fr) f Galician: microbioloxía f Georgian: მიკრობიოლოგია (miḳrobiologia) German: Mikrobiologie (de) f Greenlandic: bakterianik ilinniut Ido: mikrobiologio (io) Indonesian: mikrobiologi (id) Irish: micri-bhitheolaíocht f Italian: microbiologia (it) f Japanese: 微生物学 (ja) (びせいぶつがく, biseibutsugaku) Kannada: ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ಜೀವ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (kn) (sūkṣma jīva vijñāna) Kazakh: микробиология (mikrobiologiä) Khmer: អតិសុខុមជីវវិទ្យា (km) (ate sokʰom chiivea vityie) Korean: 미생물학(微生物學) (ko) (misaengmulhak) Kyrgyz: микробиология (mikrobiologiya) Latvian: mikrobioloģija (lv) f Malayalam: സൂക്ഷ്മജീവശാസ്ത്രം (sūkṣmajīvaśāstraṁ) Maori: mātai koiora moroiti Mongolian: Cyrillic: бичил амин судлал (bičil amin sudlal) Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯ ᠠᠮᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (bičil amin sudulul) Navajo: chʼosh doo yitʼíinii naalkaah Norwegian: Bokmål: mikrobiologi (no) m Nynorsk: mikrobiologi m Persian: میکروبیولوژی (mikrobiyoloži) Polish: mikrobiologia (pl) f Portuguese: microbiologia (pt) f Romanian: microbiologie (ro) f Russian: микробиоло́гия (ru) f (mikrobiológija) Sinhalese: ක්‍ෂුද්‍රජීව විද්‍යාව (kṣudrajīwa widyāwa) Spanish: microbiología f Swahili: mikrobiolojia Swedish: mikrobiologi (sv) c Tagalog: mikhaynayan Tamil: நுண்ணுயிரியல் (ta) (nuṇṇuyiriyal) Telugu: సూక్ష్మజీవశాస్త్రము (sūkṣmajīvaśāstramu) Thai: จุลชีววิทยา (jun-lá-chii-wá-wít-tá-yaa) Turkish: mikrobiyoloji (tr) Uzbek: mikrobiologiya (uz) Vietnamese: vi sinh vật học (vi) (微生物學)