Looking for terminology website/help

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Specializes in ICU.

I'm trying to learn names of bacterium and spirochets. I find it helps me to know what each word means. For example: Treponema pallidum. I looked it up and found that Trepo means "to turn" and nema means "to thread". So this helps me visualize Treponema as a 'twisted thread'.

ok so - I can find the meanings of only a few words that I need to know the definitions of in different places on the internet. But there are several I cannot find just what the word means. Like Neisseria gonorrhea. I just want to know what Neisseria means, but when I type it into the search it pulls up Neisseria gonorrhea. Not what i want. I just want to know what exactly Neisseria means.

Does anyone know of a website that breaks it down like this?? Or any other way I can find this info??? THANKS!:bow:

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i have no idea if this is what your looking for, but maybe some of the information on that website will be able to help you.

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/

while searching for that website mentioned above, i also found a document that i am not sure is what you need or not, but am attaching that too.

take care~!

jadu1106

StudyAidsScientificTerminology.doc

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this source explains that Neisseria is named after the dermatologist, Neisser:

http://medical.merriam-webster.com/medical/Neisseria

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

this information should be in a medical dictionary, i would think. it may also be found in the internet links on some of the instructor websites on the microbiology links posted on this sticky:

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