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charlatan (medicine) and morphotype (medicine)


charlatan (medicine)


charlatan


A medical fraud claiming to cure disease by useless procedures, secret Remedies, and worthless diagnostic and therapeutic machines.

Synonym: quack.

Origin: Fr., fr. It. Ciarlare, to prattle


morphotype (medicine)


morphotype


An infrasubspecific group of bacterial strains distinguishable from Other strains of the same species on the basis of morphologic characters which may or may not be associated with a change in serologic state.

Origin: morpho-+ G. Typos, stamp, model