microbion

English

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.

References

• “microbion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ribonomic