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staph
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stæf
/
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staf
]
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noun
Informal.
staphylococcus
.
Origin:
1930–35;
by shortening
Can be confused:
staff
,
staph.
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Medical Dictionary
staph
(stāf)
n.
Staphylococcus.
staph
adj.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
staph
staphylococcus
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Example sentences
Snow had been hospitalized on and off for the past two months with a
staph
infection.
He was taken to the hospital, where tests later showed that his catheter had
become infected with antibiotic-resistant
staph
.
Unfortunately, his body rejected the organ and he died from a
staph
infection.
Staph
can enter the body through breaks in the skin and sometimes cause
infection.
So far, the researchers have made a sensor to detect antibiotic-resistant
staph
bacteria that cause skin infections.
Pneumonia in the lungs, sepsis in the blood,
staph
and meningitis in the spinal cord are among the possibilities.
It was his first time out in public since a
staph
infection felled him this summer.
Good
staph
stays good only if locked outside by the skin's multiple defenses, though.
Staph
is not found in dirt or mud or carried through the air.
Also,
staph
bacterial infections are gram positive as well that potentially infect humans, and do so often.
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