Bacterium
ureaplasma
u·re·a·plas·ma
Subclass of:
Mycoplasmataceae
Definitions related to ureaplasma:
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A genus of gram-negative, nonmotile bacteria which are common parasitic inhabitants of the urogenital tracts of humans, cattle, dogs, and monkeys.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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A genus of irregularly shaped bacterium that do not contain a cell well in the phylum Tenericutes and the family Mycoplasmataceae.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Ureaplasma genus level.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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