anaerobium

English

Noun

anaerobium (plural anaerobia)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of anaerobe.
    • 1884, Medical record: a monthly journal of medicine and surgery, page 350:
      [] an anaerobium, which they believe to be the immediate cause of the phenomena of the disease, and which again, in its turn sporifying, gives birth to the bacilli of Koch.