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Short form of "injection", this term was used to "immunise" you from germs or bad stuff. Most commonly used when referring to the class flea bag. If they touched anything of yours you would say "jexx against...." whoever it was. Also used in games of "had" if you were caught unaware. "No you can't "had" me I was "jexx".
An illness – Buzzed by germsville means put in the hospital
Sweets (or 'lollies' in some parts of Aust.)
There were "boy germs" or "girl germs" which means cootie. As in "Boy germs!! Boy germs!!" When you were touched by a boy. , We also had "blocks" for the boy and girl germs. The girls crossed their index and middle fingers and that made them safe from boy germs, or boy germs that were passed on from another person. (Even if touched by a boy!!) The boys had their index and middle fingers together. This had the same effect as the girl block.
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To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
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Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
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A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.
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The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop.
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A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.
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A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.
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The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
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An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
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An old theory of the preexistence of germs. Cf. Embo/tement.
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A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.
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The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another.
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Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
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One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds.
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Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
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Referring to, or produced by, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc.
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Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.
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Producing only one kind of germs, or young; developing only in one way.
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A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
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One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore.
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An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.
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