ESCHERICHIA COLI


Meaning of ESCHERICHIA COLI in English

/esh'euh rik"ee euh koh"luy/ , n. Bacteriol.

a species of rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the large intestine of humans and other animals, sometimes pathogenic.

[ Escherich (d. 1911), German physician; see -IA ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .