Usage: capitalized
: a genus of minute nonmotile gram-negative strictly parasitic hemophilic bacteria (family Parvobacteriaceae) including several important pathogens (as H. influenzae associated with human respiratory infections, conjunctivitis, and meningitis, H. suis of swine influenza, or H. ducreyi of chancroid)
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/hi mof"euh leuhs/, n. Bacteriol.
a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.
[ < NL (1917); see HEMO-, -PHILOUS]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.