microbion
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]microbion (plural microbions)
- (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
[edit]- “microbion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.