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germ theory

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germ theory
n.
The doctrine holding that infectious diseases are caused by the activity of microorganisms within the body.
germ theory
n
1. (Medicine) the theory that all infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the theory that living organisms develop from other living organisms by the growth and differentiation of germ cells
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Noun1.germ theorygerm theory - (medicine) the theory that all contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms
scientific theory - a theory that explains scientific observations; "scientific theories must be falsifiable"
medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques


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Against this view, Meyer and Cotton posed a novel paradigm based on the germ theory of disease and the new sciences of bacteriology and virology.
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Her dissertation, Americans and the Germ Theory of Disease (1949), has received appreciative attention recently as scholars revisit the reasons why the American medical establishment clung so tightly to the miasma theories of disease long after they had been rejected on the Continent (Tomes, 1997).
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