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is colonization
noun
The process of establishing a colony.
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"It is colonization by three or four companies who want total control of what goes onto the plates of people across the planet and who want to make a lot of money".
And when Mr. Dillane's Henry is answering his feminist daughter, who thinks any permanent bond between men and women is "colonization," by insisting that love is "mess, tears, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness" -- well, he has the doleful charisma to convince you that, yes, it does.
Infectious blepharitis is more common in young people; the usual cause is colonization by Staphylococcus bacteria along the margins of the eyelids or, less commonly, an infection with herpesvirus that involves the eyelids.
A serious complication of external cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage is colonization of the catheter and posterior retrograde infection resulting in ventriculomeningitis.
The terminal step of this sequential process is colonization of the tumor cells at distant sites in the body.
Another concern with probiotics is colonization or overgrowth with lactic acid bacteria.
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After slavery, there was colonization.
Patients who were considered to be colonization.
The primary outcome was colonization of skin surrounding the insertion site with >100 CFU/swab at the last sampling.
The other 40 false positive alerts may have been colonization, or community infections, and were excluded by the ICPs.
Of the 217 (71%) cases with clinical documentation, 73 (33%) were infections and 144 (67%) were colonizations.
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