Germ in a sentence as a noun

But it was germ-laden dirt that seemed to matter, not air pollution.

But the germ of it is there when you state to the effect that - people can't understand what we do or why we do it.

This has nothing to do with the real world as it exists today, but I do honestly belief that's the germ of his worldview.

There were not even a germ theory that had any power to explain his illness, let alone antibiotics with which to treat him.

If you want to be perfectly safe, you'll never leave your house in case you catch a germ, get in a car accident or even slip on a banana peel.

Things like germ theory, medicine, cooking, electricity, etc.

Or if there will be things people will take to reduce mutations or lend better error correction - outside immune and optionally germ cells.

But she has allergies now too. I wonder how well exposure to dirt or to germs can really be quantified at the individual level for reliable treatment/control studies of this issue, rather than this kind of cross-sectional population comparison.

The trick for scientists is to determine exactly which early life exposures to germs might matter and identify the biology behind their potentially protective effect.

I am, on the other hand, fascinated by how poor framing and communication, close-mindedness, and overall bloody-mindedness prevented Semmelweis himself from becoming the godfather of the germ theory of medicine.

Germ definitions

noun

anything that provides inspiration for later work

See also: source seed

noun

a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

noun

a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

See also: microbe