transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌē-ˈkō-ˌlī ]
noun
( plural E· coli )
Date: 1926
: an enterobacterium ( Escherichia coli ) that is used in public health as an indicator of fecal pollution (as of water or food) and in medicine and genetics as a research organism and that occurs in various strains that may live as harmless inhabitants of the human lower intestine or may produce a toxin causing intestinal illness