microbiology

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ biology.

Noun

microbiology (uncountable)

1. (biology) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:microbiology

Derived terms

• astromicrobiology
• geomicrobiology
• palaeomicrobiology
• paleomicrobiology
• sociomicrobiology
• soil microbiology
• xenomicrobiology

 

Related terms

• microbiological
• microbiologist

Translations

branch of biology dealing with microorganisms

• Albanian: mikrobiologji (sq) f
• Armenian: մանրէաբանություն (hy) (manrēabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: microbioloxía f
• Bashkir: микробиология (mikrobiologiya)
• Bengali: অণুজীব বিজ্ঞান (onujib biggên)
• Burmese: အဏုဇီဝဗေဒ (a.nu.jiwa.beda.)
• Catalan: microbiologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微生物學／微生物学 (zh) (wéishēngwùxué)

• Chuvash: микробиологи (mikrobiologi)
• Czech: mikrobiologie (cs) f
• Danish: mikrobiologi (da) c
• Dutch: microbiologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: mikrobiologio
• Estonian: mikrobioloogia (et)
• Finnish: mikrobiologia (fi)
• French: microbiologie (fr) f
• Galician: microbioloxía f
• Georgian: მიკრობიოლოგია (miḳrobiologia)
• German: Mikrobiologie (de) f
• Greenlandic: bakterianik ilinniut
• Ido: mikrobiologio (io)
• Irish: micri-bhitheolaíocht f
• Italian: microbiologia (it) f
• Japanese: 微生物学 (ja) (びせいぶつがく, biseibutsugaku)
• Kannada: ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ಜೀವ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (kn) (sūkṣma jīva vijñāna)
• Kazakh: микробиология (mikrobiologiä)
• Khmer: អតិសុខុមជីវវិទ្យា (km) (ate sokʰom chiivea vityie)
• Korean: 미생물학(微生物學) (ko) (misaengmulhak)
• Kyrgyz: микробиология (mikrobiologiya)
• Latvian: mikrobioloģija (lv) f
• Malayalam: സൂക്ഷ്മജീവശാസ്ത്രം (sūkṣmajīvaśāstraṁ)
• Maori: mātai koiora moroiti
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бичил амин судлал (bičil amin sudlal)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯ
  ᠠᠮᠢᠨ
  ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (bičil amin sudulul)

• Navajo: chʼosh doo yitʼíinii naalkaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikrobiologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: mikrobiologi m

• Persian: میکروبیولوژی (mikrobiyoloži)
• Polish: mikrobiologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: microbiologia (pt) f
• Romanian: microbiologie (ro) f
• Russian: микробиоло́гия (ru) f (mikrobiológija)
• Sinhalese: ක්‍ෂුද්‍රජීව විද්‍යාව (kṣudrajīwa widyāwa)
• Spanish: microbiología f
• Swahili: mikrobiolojia
• Swedish: mikrobiologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: mikhaynayan
• Tamil: நுண்ணுயிரியல் (ta) (nuṇṇuyiriyal)
• Telugu: సూక్ష్మజీవశాస్త్రము (sūkṣmajīvaśāstramu)
• Thai: จุลชีววิทยา (jun-lá-chii-wá-wít-tá-yaa)
• Turkish: mikrobiyoloji (tr)
• Uzbek: mikrobiologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: vi sinh vật học (微生物學)