microbion
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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.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “microbion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)