/mawr'euhk sel"euh/, n. Bacteriol.
a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria, certain species of which, as M. lacunata, are parasitic and pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.
[ < NL (1939), after Victor Morax (1899-1935), Swiss ophthalmologist, who isolated the type species; see -ELLA]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.