gnotobiology

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Noun

gnotobiology (uncountable)

  1. (biology) The study of animals in a microbe-free environment.
    • 1970 November, TD Luckey, “Gnotobiology is ecology”, in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, volume 23, number 11, page 1533:
      Gnotobiology allows a more exact exploration of ecology by separating macrobes from microbes and providing an experimental base for qualitative and quantitative understanding of the interaction of microbes in and with the host.