microbiology

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ biology

Noun

microbiology (uncountable)

1. (biology) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:microbiology

Related terms

• microbiological
• microbiologist

Derived terms

• astromicrobiology
• geomicrobiology
• palaeomicrobiology
• paleomicrobiology
• sociomicrobiology
• soil microbiology
• xenomicrobiology

 

Translations

branch of biology dealing with microorganisms

• Albanian: mikrobiologji (sq) f
• Armenian: մանրէաբանություն (hy) (manrēabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: microbioloxía f
• Burmese: အဏုဇီဝဗေဒ (a.nu.jiwa.beda.)
• Catalan: microbiologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微生物學／微生物学 (zh) (wēishēngwùxué), 微生物学 (zh) (wéishēngwùxué)

• Czech: mikrobiologie (cs) f
• Dutch: microbiologie (nl)
• Esperanto: mikrobiologio
• Estonian: mikrobioloogia (et)
• Finnish: mikrobiologia (fi)
• French: microbiologie (fr) f
• Galician: microbioloxía f
• German: Mikrobiologie (de) f
• Greenlandic: bakterianik ilinniut
• Ido: mikrobiologio (io)
• Irish: micri-bhitheolaíocht f
• Italian: microbiologia (it) f
• Japanese: 微生物学 (ja) (びせいぶつがく, biseibutsugaku)
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• Khmer: អតិសុខុមជីវវិទ្យា (km) (ate sokʰom chiivea vityie)
• Korean: 미생물학 (ko) (misaengmulhak) (微生物學 (ko))
• Latvian: mikrobioloģija (lv) f
• Maori: mātai koiora moroiti
• Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯ ᠠᠮᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯ ᠠᠮᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ), бичил амин судлал (bičil amin sudlal)
• Navajo: chʼosh doo yitʼíinii naalkaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikrobiologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: mikrobiologi m

• Novial:
• Polish: mikrobiologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: microbiologia (pt) f
• Romanian: microbiologie (ro) f
• Russian: микробиоло́гия (ru) f (mikrobiológija)
• Spanish: microbiología f
• Swedish: mikrobiologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: mikhaynayan
• Turkish: mikrobiyoloji (tr)
• Vietnamese: vi sinh vật học (微生物學)