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Which of the following is the combining form for sound?

What medical urinary term would you use to describe this urine sample?

What does urethr/o mean?

You are conducting a serial dilution of a stock sample. You transfer 8mL from your stock into your first dilution tube containing 12mL. What is the dilution of the third tube? 

What does the medical term ganglion mean?

Which of the following is not a combining form for “eye”?

Please match the neuron structure to the correct definition.

You are tasked with enumerating the microbial load of an unknown sample. You begin your investigation by serially diluting the sample resulting in the following dilutions: 10-2, 10-3, and 10-4. You spread 95µL of each dilution onto a separate nutrient agar plate and incubate for 48 hours. Upon examining the plates for the 10-2 and 10-4 dilutions only. You observe the following results:  10-2: 240 CFU  10-4: 70 CFU  Calculate the viable titer for these two agar plates. Report your final answer in the correct notation and with appropriate units.

A person who becomes an entrepreneur as a result of some severe hardship

Ham is a common source of staphylococcal food intoxication because the bacteria grow well in this particular food item. Based on this information, you would describe staphylococci as ___ based on their environmental preferences? [Hint: This is also the reason why staphylococci grow well on human skin.]