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 f
• Armenian: մանրէաբանություն (manrēabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: microbioloxía f
• Bashkir: микробиология (mikrobiologiya)
• Bengali: অণুজীব বিজ্ঞান (oṇujīb bijñan)
• 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 f
• Danish: mikrobiologi c
• Dutch: microbiologie f
• Esperanto: mikrobiologio
• Estonian: mikrobioloogia
• Finnish: mikrobiologia
• French: microbiologie f
• Galician: microbioloxía f
• Georgian: მიკრობიოლოგია (miḳrobiologia)
• German: Mikrobiologie f
• Greenlandic: bakterianik ilinniut
• Ido: mikrobiologio
• Irish: micri-bhitheolaíocht f
• Italian: microbiologia f
• Japanese: 微生物学 (びせいぶつがく, biseibutsugaku)
• Kannada: ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ಜೀವ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (sūkṣma jīva vijñāna)
• Kazakh: микробиология (mikrobiologiä)
• Khmer: អតិសុខុមជីវវិទ្យា (ate sokʰom chiivea vityie)
• Korean: 미생물학(微生物學) (misaengmulhak)
• Kyrgyz: микробиология (mikrobiologiya)
• Latvian: mikrobioloģija f
• Malayalam: സൂക്ഷ്മജീവശാസ്ത്രം (sūkṣmajīvaśāstraṃ)
• Maori: mātai koiora moroiti
• Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯ ᠠᠮᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠯ ᠠᠮᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ), бичил амин судлал (bičil amin sudlal)
• Navajo: chʼosh doo yitʼíinii naalkaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikrobiologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: mikrobiologi m

• Polish: mikrobiologia f
• Portuguese: microbiologia f
• Romanian: microbiologie f
• Russian: микробиоло́гия f (mikrobiológija)
• Sinhalese: ක්‍ෂුද්‍රජීව විද්‍යාව (kṣudrajīwa widyāwa)
• Spanish: microbiología f
• Swedish: mikrobiologi c
• Tagalog: mikhaynayan
• Tamil: நுண்ணுயிரியல் (nuṇṇuyiriyal)
• Thai: จุลชีววิทยา (jun-lá-chii-wá-wít-tá-yaa)
• Turkish: mikrobiyoloji
• Uzbek: mikrobiologiya
• Vietnamese: vi sinh vật học (微生物學)