Vibrio comma


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Related to Vibrio comma: Vibrio cholerae, vibrioid
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Noun1.Vibrio comma - comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic choleraVibrio comma - comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic cholera
genus Vibrio - a genus of bacteria
vibrio, vibrion - curved rodlike motile bacterium
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Is this why the medical profession is so uppity, because its stuff is cosmic and those diseases - Vincent's infection, vibrio comma, telangiectasia - sound as if they were first thought of in ancient Rome, ancient Athens?