See Also: Rothia(medicine)

geo (iou) and Rothia (medicine)


geo (iou)



geo noun. Orig. Orkney & Shetland. Also gio. Pl. -os. E17.
[Old Norse gja.]
A rocky gully or inlet in the coast (in Orkney and Shetland); Physical Geography a long, narrow steep-sided cleft formed by erosion in coastal cliffs.

Rothia (medicine)


Rothia


A genus of nonmotile, nonsporeforming, non-acid-fast, aerobic to facultatively anaerobic bacteria (family Actinomycetaceae) containing Gram-positive, coccoid, diphtheroid, or filamentous cells; metabolism is fermentative, and glucose fermentation yields primarily lactic acid but no propionic acid. These organisms are normal inhabitants of the human oral cavity and are opportunistic pathogens. The type species is Rothia dentocariosa.

Origin: G. D. Roth

Rothia dentocariosa, rare cause of infective endocarditis in humans.