Meanings
plural microbions
- archaicA microbe.
I am very well aware that lately mention has been made of particular microbions.
1879 June 28, The Chicago Medical Journal and Examine, volume 38, page 6241 more example
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.
1883 January 18, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 64
Origin
- Ancient Greekμικρός“small”
- Englishmicrobion
From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
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