microbion

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Noun

microbion (plural microbions)

  1. (archaic) A microbe.
    • 1879 June, The Chicago Medical Journal and Examine, volume 38, page 624:
      I am very well aware that lately mention has been made of particular microbions.
    • 1883 January 18, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 64:
      M. Pasteur was announced as prepared not only to expound his previously published investigations concerning the modification and protective inoculation of disease-poisons, but to disclose new examples of modification of such points by the oxygen of the air, and to prove that we have really reached a general method for the moddification of certain poisons, whose application has only to be varied according to the physiological characteristics of the various microbions.

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