What does c. diphtheriae mean?

c. diphtheriae means "a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria".

What is another word for c. diphtheriae?

Close synonyms include Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Klebs-Loeffler bacillus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is c. diphtheriae a common word?

c. diphtheriae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

c. diphtheriae — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria
SynonymsCorynebacterium diphtheriae Klebs-Loeffler bacillus
Broadercorynebacterium
Part ofgenus Corynebacterium

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What does c. diphtheriae mean?: c. diphtheriae means "a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria".

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