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staphylococcus
/ˌstæfələˈkɔkəs/
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staf-uh-luh-KAW-kus: the main beat falls on KAW.
The ph sounds like f. Both c sounds near the end are hard k sounds, and the final vowel is unstressed.
5 syllables · Stress on syllable 4
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“The laboratory manual includes a photograph of staphylococcus.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does staphylococcus mean?
noun
- A spherical gram-positive parasitic bacterium of the genus Staphylococcus, causing blisters, septicemia, and other infections.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌstæfələˈkɔkəs/
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Then, too, experimental observations of opsonic index pointed towards the lowering of resistance, and, by the way, it was rather a remarkable fact that after a few months in Adelie Land, staphylococcus pyogenes aureus--a common germ in civilization- could not be cultivated artificially from the throat, nose or skin, of six individuals from whom monthly bacteriological cultures were made.