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Mysophobia, also known as verminophobia, germophobia, germaphobia, bacillophobia and bacteriophobia, is a pathological fear of contamination and germs. [1] It is classified as a type of specific phobia, meaning it is evaluated and diagnosed based on the experience of high levels of fear and anxiety beyond what is reasonable when exposed to or in anticipation of exposure to stimuli related to ...
Stenotrophomonas is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria, [2] comprising at least twenty-six species. The main reservoirs of Stenotrophomonas are soil and plants. [ 3 ] Stenotrophomonas species range from common soil organisms ( S. nitritireducens ) to opportunistic human pathogens ( S. maltophilia ); the molecular taxonomy of the genus is still ...
Entrance to the sentō at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum. Sentō (銭湯) is a type of Japanese communal bathhouse where customers pay for entrance. Traditionally these bathhouses have been quite utilitarian, with a tall barrier separating the sexes within one large room, a minimum of lined-up faucets on both sides, and a single large bath for the already washed bathers to sit in ...
High G+C Gram-positive bacteria Bacillati "Bipolaricaulota" Hao et al. 2018 KB1 "Acetothermia" (OP1) "Fraserbacteria" (RIF31) Bacillati: Deinococcota: Weisburg, Giovannoni & Woes 2021 Bacillati "Margulisiibacteriota" corrig. Anantharaman et al. 2016 "Saganbacteria" Bacillati: Cyanobacteriota: Oren, Mares & Rippka 2022 Blue-green algae ...
The word bacteria is the plural of the Neo-Latin bacterium, which is the romanisation of the Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion), [6] the diminutive of βακτηρία (baktēría), meaning "staff, cane", [7] because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped. [8] [9]
Certain gut bacteria may increase the risk that a person will binge eat and become obese, a new study suggests. In a series of experiments, mice and humans with a propensity for binge eating had ...
Other influences include Max Wertheimer's gestalt structure theory and Kant's account of schemas in categorization, as well as studies in experimental psychology on the mental rotation of images. In addition to the dissertation on over by Brugman, Lakoff's use of image schema theory also drew extensively on Talmy and Langacker's theories of ...
Dysentery may also be caused by shigellosis, an infection by bacteria of the genus Shigella, and is then known as bacillary dysentery (or Marlow syndrome). The term bacillary dysentery etymologically might seem to refer to any dysentery caused by any bacilliform bacteria, but its meaning is restricted by convention to Shigella dysentery.