Look up: spheroplast

1. Spheroplast
   A spherical, osmotically sensitive cell derived from a bacterium by loss of some but not all of the rigid wall layer. If all the rigid wall layer had been completely lost, the structure is called a protoplast.
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2. spheroplast
   Protoplasts to which remnants of bacterial cell wall remain attached.Spheroplasts are able to regenerate cell walls. Category: Medicine
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3. spheroplast
   Bacterium from which the cell wall has been removed but that has not lysed.
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4. spheroplast
   Bacterium from which the cell wall has been removed but that has not lysed. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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5. spheroplast
   (sfēr´o-plast) a membrane-bound, spherical cell that results after partial or complete removal of the cell wall from a bacterial, yeast, or fungal cell; it is dependent for its integrity on an isotonic or hypertonic medium.
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6. spheroplast
   Type: Term Pronunciation: sfē′rō-plast Definitions: 1. A bacterial cell from which the rigid cell wall has been incompletely removed. The bacterium loses its characteristic shape and becomes round.
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7. Spheroplast
   A `spheroplast` is a cell from which the cell wall has been almost completely removed, as by the action of penicillin. The name stems from the fact that after a microbe`s cell wall is digested, membrane tension causes the cell to acquire a characteristic spherical shape. Spheroplasts are osmotically...
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