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🦠 Causing wounds 🦠 A harmful bacterium
vulnificus

vulnificus

1 9.9
Causing serious wounds or harm to people in medical situations
  • adjective
  • Specialized
: vulnificus
  • The vulnificus bacteria can cause serious infections in humans.

Examples

  • Doctors warned that exposure to vulnificus organisms in seawater could lead to dangerous wounds.

  • The vulnificus bacteria can lead to serious infections.

  • Researchers studied the effects of vulnificus toxins on animal tissue.

  • Infections caused by vulnificus are particularly dangerous.

  • The Vibrio vulnificus bacteria can lead to severe skin infections in individuals with open wounds.

  • Infections caused by vulnificus often require immediate medical attention to prevent serious complications.

  • Eating raw seafood contaminated with vulnificus can pose a significant risk to vulnerable individuals.

Synonyms

hurtful
vsvulnificus
7 2.9

Causing harm to living things like people or animals

is specific to medical or biological cases causing physical injury
wounding
vsvulnificus
7 6.3

Causing emotional pain or hurt

focuses on physical wounds in medical or biological contexts

How Harmful

lethal
247 4.8
dangerous
∞ 1.5
vulnificus
  • Specialized
1 9.9
harmful
158 2.6
harmless
214 1.0

Surface Forms

vulnificus positive

Etymology

Vulnificus comes from the Latin vulnus 'wound' and the ending -ficus 'making', so it literally means 'wound-maker'. That's why vulnificus is used to describe something that causes wounds, and the same vuln- appears in vulnerable to help you remember.