Medical Dictionary

smooth

adj \ˈsmüth\

Medical Definition of SMOOTH

:  forming or being a colony with a flat shiny surface usually made up of organisms that form no chains or filaments, show characteristic internal changes, and tend toward marked increase in capsule formation and virulence—used of dissociated strains of bacteria; compare rough

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