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Hemophilus

[ hi-mof-uh-luhs ]

noun

, Bacteriology.
  1. a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hemophilus1

< New Latin (1917); hemo-, -philous

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