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PPLO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does PPLO mean? 

PPLO (noun)
  The noun PPLO has 1 sense:

1. a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humansplay

  Familiarity information: PPLO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PPLO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pleuropneumonialike organism; PPLO

Hypernyms ("PPLO" is a kind of...):

mycoplasma (any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection)


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