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antitoxin
antitoxin any of a group of antibodies formed in the body as a response to the introduction of poisonous products, or toxins . By introducing small amounts of a specific toxin into the healthy body, it is possible to stimulate the production of antitoxin so that the body's defenses are already est... Read more
fever
fever elevation of body temperature above the normal level, which in humans is about 98°F (37°C) when measured orally. Fever is considered to be a symptom of a disorder rather than a disease in itself. Under normal conditions the heat that is generated by the burning of food by the body is ... Read more
sweat
sweat or perspiration, fluid secreted by the sweat glands of mammalian skin and containing water, salts, and waste products of body metabolism such as urea. The dissolved solid content of sweat is only one eighth that of an equal volume of urine, the body's main vehicle of salt excretion; howev... Read more
body snatching
body snatching the stealing of corpses from graves and morgues. Before cadavers were legally available for dissection and study by medical students, traffic in stolen bodies was profitable. Those who engaged in the illicit practice were sometimes called resurrectionists; they were active from about... Read more
pus
pus thick white or yellowish fluid that forms in areas of infection such as wounds and abscesses. It is constituted of decomposed body tissue, bacteria (or other micro-organisms that cause the infection), and certain white blood cells. These white cells form one of the defense mechanisms of the bod... Read more
tryptophan
tryptophan , organic compound, one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l -stereoisomer appears in mammalian protein. It is one of several essential amino acids needed in the diet; human beings cannot synthesize it from simpler metabolites. Young adults require abou... Read more
typhus
typhus any of a group of infectious diseases caused by microorganisms classified between bacteria and viruses, known as rickettsias. Typhus diseases are characterized by high fever and an early onset of rash and headache. They respond to antibiotic treatment with tetracycline and chloramphenicol an... Read more
glanders
glanders highly contagious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys, caused by the bacterium Actinobacillus mallei. Although it can be transmitted to humans, it is limited almost exclusively to handlers of equine animals. The disease causes death in infected animals or humans. Glanders has been virt... Read more
antibody
antibody protein produced by the immune system (see immunity ) in response to the presence in the body of antigens: foreign proteins or polysaccharides such as bacteria, bacterial toxins , viruses, or other cells or proteins. Such antigens are capable of inflicting damage by chemically combining ... Read more
threonine
threonine , organic compound, one of the 22 α- amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l -stereoisomer appears in mammalian protein. It is one of several essential amino acids needed in the diet; human beings cannot synthesize it from simpler metabolites. Young adults need ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Bacteria in the human body"

bacteria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...organisms. Most of these are saprobes, bacteria that live off dead organic matter. The bacteria that cause disease are heterotrophic...include the "normal flora" of the human body. Autotrophic bacteria manufacture their own food by the processes...
Anaerobic Bacteria Culture
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers ...Definition An anaerobic bacteria culture is a method used...Obligate anaerobes are bacteria that can live only in...performed to identify bacteria that grow only in the...oxygen and which may cause human infection. If overlooked...cerebrospinal fluid and exudative body fluids, deep wounds...
Human Bite Infections
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence ...of the skin or body part. Human bites on the...infection from a human bite is inflammation...center of the body. Complications...disease-causing bacteria within the bloodstream...treatment of any human bite severe enough...what part of the body is affected...
Body Odor
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine ...some of the bacteria that naturally occur on human skin can multiply. These bacteria are attracted...bacteria on the body surface. Researchers...some disease bacteria. People who...develop a strong body odor. Bromhidrosis...odor. The human body normally...
Human Nature, Physical Aspects
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...human beings and the more than human world. But having a body may do no more to unify than...major dynamical systems of the body Human biology partitions the functions of the human body into eleven major dynamical systems...
body odours
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body body odours The human body produces a wide range of...through interaction with bacteria . Illness, in turn, may...olfactory emanations of the body in a distinctive fashion...biological standpoint, human body odours probably played...
Immunology, Human
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging IMMUNOLOGY, HUMAN The immune system is an...syndromes, and cancer. The body eradicates foreign substances...immune response, the body engages immune cells...responses against cells of the body that would result in autoimmunity...substances (e.g., cells, bacteria, cell debris) are engulfed...
Bacterial Infections
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...or even essential to life. Bacteria break down (decompose) dead...used again. In addition, some bacteria help plants get nitrogen. Without...plants could not grow. In the human body, bacteria help keep the digestive tract...
Ehrlichiosis
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...ehrlichiosis (HME); bacteria similar or identical...which cause human granulocytic ehrlichiosis...as viruses or bacteria. Ehrlichiosis interferes with the body ’ s...vital part of the body ’ s...against invading bacteria, viruses, and...223 cases of human ...
Antibiotics
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...harmful to disease-causing bacteria. Antibiotics can also be produced...compounds work against strains of bacteria that are resistant to other antibiotics. Some microscopic bacteria that enter the human body through an opening or a wound...

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Death
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...and struck fear into human beings through the millennia...x2013; 8). The body dies but in the religious...blood settling in the body cavity. Shortly after...The decomposition of the body that follows, called...action of enzymes and bacteria. Bereavement, Grief...
Behring, Emil von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...disinfecting effect upon the bacteria. He concluded that...living animal and human body cells show much more...any hitherto known bacteria may almost be considered...a result, before bacteria are killed by a disinfectant...the infected animal body itself is killed...
genetics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology ...and colleagues. 1978 Human insulin is produced by genetically engineered bacteria. 1983 US biochemist...place in the USA The Human Genome Project begins...sheep are used to produce human proteins in their milk...cloned from an adult body cell. 1998 The first...
Fleming, Alexander
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...professional career was devoted mainly to investigating the human body ’ s defenses against bacterial infections...artificially infected blood at dilutions harmless to the bacteria. He therefore condemned the intravenous administration...
parasite
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing ...irritation and interfere with bodily functions; others destroy host tissues and release toxins into the body. Human parasites include fungi, bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and worms. See also commensal , symbiosis . — parasitic (pa-r...

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Questioning antibiotics.(helpful bacteria in the human body)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...November 2005). Bacteria, some helpful...other cells in the human body by ten to one...all the other bacteria are also affected...antibiotic use, these bacteria, like others in the body, have developed...less than 25% of human-based Bacteroides...
Bacteria Outnumber Cells in Human Body
Transcript from: NPR Weekend All Things Considered; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...07-01-2006 Bacteria Outnumber Cells in Human Body Host: DEBBIE...as an adult human, you are, with...little creatures, bacteria. You know them...that we have more bacteria living inside...GIBSON: So each human, if you take...
GERM WARFARE A LOT OF BACTERIA HAVE LAYOVERS OUTSIDE THE HUMAN BODY, HUDDLING INSIDE ENDOSCOPES, AROUND FURNITURE, EVEN ON STETHOSCOPES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/24/1997; 700+ words ; ...hogging the remote control, are bacteria. No need for alarm. The...to understand exactly when bacteria in a hospital might pose a...care workers. But a lot of bacteria have layovers outside the human body, huddling inside endoscopes...
Here's how TB bacteria hide and multiply in the human body
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 5/15/2008; 550 words ; ...tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body, and are...allow the body to identify TB bacteria more easily...inside the human macrophage...attack the human body. By identifying...the hiding bacteria, which will...
Scientists writing hitchhikers guide to human body: ; Only 10% of your cells are yours; rest are bacteria, other microbes
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 9/6/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...in or on your body that aren't of human origin. Only...percent are bacteria, viruses and...living in the human gut and about...separate species on human skin. The microbes...colonies of bacteria that settle...areas of the body. Jeffrey Gordon...
The extended genotype; Humans and bacteria.(human genome)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/5/2007; 700+ words ; ...but it is also true that human bodies themselves are societies. Besides the 10 trillion human cells in a body, there are another 100 trillion bacterial cells. These bacteria are symbiotic with their human hosts--drawing sustenance...
Living it up for dinner. (probiotic bacteria in human diet)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 4/20/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...beneficial or 'probiotic' bacteria - eating living creatures...system. The fact that the human body is made up of a huge number...astonishing is that the human body is also host to around 10[14] bacteria. Most of these live in...
SEQUENCING REVEALS GENETICS OF TRILLIONS OF BACTERIA IN HUMAN GUT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/26/2006; 700+ words ; ...home to the trillions of bacteria that make it possible...are cells in the entire human body. In a study published...combined genomes of all bacteria present in stool samples...the bacteria's role in human health. "We sequenced...
Fat Bacteria in Human Guts Tied to Obesity
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 12/20/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...NPR) 12-20-2006 Fat Bacteria in Human Guts Tied to Obesity Host...will also get eaten by the bacteria living in your gut. And...mice. The other half got bacteria from fat mice. Both groups put on body fat. But guess which one...
How 'flesh-eating' bacteria invade body's immune system
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/14/2008; 700+ words ; ...or 'Strep' bacteria are able to...spread in the body by degrading...infections in human patients. The...controls the body's white blood...ability to fight bacteria. Without signals...supporting our body's natural...interaction of Strep bacteria with neutrophils...easily killed ...