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Home Dictionary Name: germGerm
That which is to develop a new individual as the germ of a fetus of a plant or flower and the like the earliest form under which an organism appears...
Germ theory
The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs Cf Biogenesis Abiogenesis...
Contagious disease
A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it or with some secretion of or object touched by such a patient Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs Many germ diseases are not contagious some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required...
Emboicirctement
The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preeumlxisting germs and that these encase the germs of all future living things inclosed one within another...
Gamete
A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual In Bot gamete designates esp the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation forming a zygospore The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts sperm male and egg female their union is called fertilization and the resulting zygote an ooumlspore In Zooumll gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms...
Miasma
Infectious particles or germs floating in the air air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs noxious effluvia malaria...
VerbarMonerula
A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non nucleated mass of protoplasm It precedes the one celled germ So called from its likeness to a moner...
VerbarOvum
A more or less spherical and transparent cell which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells constituting a new individual like the parent an egg spore germ or germ cell See Illust of Mycropyle...
Disinfectant and pesticide
Disinfectant and pesticide, 'disinfectant' is defined in webster Comprehensive Dictionary 'as a substance used to disinfect' or to destroy the germs of infectious and contagious diseases. In the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 'disinfectant' is defined as 'a commercially produced chemical liquid that destroys germs', pesticide' has been defined in Butterworths Medical Dictionary, Second Edition, as 'a comprehensive word to include substances that will kill any form of pest, e.g., insects, rodents and bacteria'. It includes a large variety of compounds of diverse chemical nature and biological activity grouped together usually on the basis of what pests they are used to destroy or eliminate, Bombay Chemical v. C.C.E. (P.) Ltd., 1995 Supp (2) SCC 646: AIR 1995 SC 1469 (1471). [Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, s. 5A, Item 68]...
Biogenesis
A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents called also biogeny opposed to abiogenesis...
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