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Noguchia (medicine) and erect illumination (medicine)


Noguchia (medicine)


Noguchia


A genus of aerobic to facultatively anaerobic, motile, peritrichous bacteria (family Brucellaceae) containing small, slender, Gram-negative, encapsulated rods. These organisms are present in the conjunctiva of man and Other animals affected by a follicular type of disease. The type species is Noguchia granulosis.

Origin: Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese bacteriologist, 1876-1928


erect illumination (medicine)


erect illumination -->
direct illumination


An illumination in which the rays of light are directed downward, almost perpendicularly onto the upper surface of the object, which reflects the rays upward into the optical system.

Synonym: erect illumination, vertical illumination.