| OID | optimal immunomodulating dose; Organism Identification Number; oxygen insufflation device |
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| PO | by mouth, orally [Lat. per os]; parieto-occipital; parietal operculum; period of onset; perioperativ... |
| PPLO | pleuropneumonia-like organism |
| SOR | stimulus-organism response; superoxide release |
| SRO | sex-ratio organism; single room occupancy; smallest region of overlap; Steele-Richardson-Olszewski [... |
| defective organism | Mutant with a nutritional requirement not present in the wild type organism. Synonym: defective organism, deficiency mutant. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| organism | <biology> Any individual living thing, whether animal or plant. (18 Nov 1997) |
| ectocommensal organism | An organism that benefits from living on the outer surface of another organism without harming the other organism. A type of commensalism. (09 Oct 1997) |
| transgenic organism | <molecular biology> Organisms that have integrated foreign DNA into their germ line as a result of the experimental introduction of DNA. Recombinant DNA techniques are commonly used to produce a transgenic organism. (13 Nov 1997) |
| enteric organism | A microorganism that lives in the intestines. (09 Oct 1997) |
| fastidious organism | A bacterial organism having complex nutritional requirements. (05 Mar 2000) |