bacterially

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In a way caused by tiny germs that can make you ill

adverb
/bækˈtɪrɪəli/

Specialized

: bacteriológicamente

And you seem to be saying, if that were the case, that everyone always treated these bacterially contaminated meats "properly," there would theoretically never be any cases of foodborne illness.

Examples

The adoption of the simple procedure of cleaning the skin prior to injection will help reduce the frequency of serious, bacterially related medical complications.

Academic text (2006)
Developments of new molecular technologies, in addition to multidisciplinary collaborative research on coral reefs, have led to the rapid advancement in our understanding of bacterially mediated reef responses to environmental change.

Blog text (7)
The patient developed a bacterially induced infection after the surgery.
Bacterially contaminated water can pose serious health risks.
It's important to identify bacterially driven illnesses to provide the right treatment.

Surface Forms

bacterially positive

Morphology

bacterially = bacterial (transparent) = bacterium + al + ly

Formed as the adverb of 'bacterial' by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', with a clear meaning relation.

Etymology

The word bacterially comes from bacteria, a word that originally meant 'little stick' in Greek because many bacteria look like tiny rods. Think of them as tiny 'germs', so bacterially means 'in a way that involves or is caused by bacteria'.