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Bacteriology

Bac-te′ri-olˊo-gy

,

Noun.

[

Bacterium

+

-logy

.]

(Biol.)

The branch of microbiology relating to bacteria.

Definition 2024

bacteriology

bacteriology

English

Noun

bacteriology ‎(usually uncountable, plural bacteriologies)

(biology, microbiology) The scientific study of bacteria, especially in relation to disease and agriculture.

Related terms

Translations

scientific study of bacteria

Albanian: bakteriologji (sq)
Armenian: մանրէաբանություն (hy) ‎(manrēabanutʿyun)
Catalan: bacteriologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 細菌學 (zh), 细菌学 (zh) ‎(xìjùnxué)
Czech: bakteriologie (cs) f
Danish: bakteriologi c
Dutch: bacteriologie (nl) f
Esperanto: bakteriologio
Finnish: bakteriologia (fi)
French: bactériologie (fr) f
German: Bakterienkunde f
Greek: βακτηριολογία (el) ‎(vaktiriología)
Hebrew: בקטריולוגיה (he) f ‎(bacteriológya)
Irish: baictéareolaíocht f

Japanese: 細菌学 (ja) ‎(さいきんがく, saikingaku)
Khmer: អាវេត្រាណូវិទ្យា ‎(ʔaaveitraanoovityie)
Lithuanian: bakteriològija f
Malay: bakteriologi, kaji kuman
Norwegian:

Bokmål: bakteriologi m

Nynorsk: bakteriologi m
Portuguese: bacteriologia (pt) f
Romanian: bacteriologie (ro) f
Russian: бактериоло́гия (ru) f ‎(bakteriológija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: bakteriologija (sh) f
Slovak: bakteriológia f
Spanish: bacteriología (es) f
Yiddish: באַקטעריאָלאָגיע f ‎(bakteryologye)

See also

microbiology