clostridium

See also: Clostridium

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Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Clostridium.

Noun

clostridium (plural clostridia)

  1. (bacteriology) Any of several mostly anaerobic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Clostridium, that are present in the soil and in the intestines of humans and animals and are capable of forming spores

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