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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 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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. Germ theory is not the entire story, but do wash your hands often when out in public. 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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