What does «sarcina» mean in Spanish?
- Latin word meaning pack or load as carried by the Roman legionaries, the heavy infantry of the Roman legions. Most of a legionary's equipment, with the exception of his weapons and armor, in early times, was carried by mules and carts.
- Nitrogenous substance found in meat juice, bone marrow, in some fruits, etc.
- A genus of Gram-positive cocci bacteria of the family Clostridiaceae. A microbial cellulose synthesizer, several members of the genus are human flora and can also be found on the skin and in the large intestine. In the past they were called vomit sarcins, having been discovered in human vomit for the first time by the Scottish anatomist John Goodsir. The type species of the genus is Sarcina ventriculi, a variety found on the surface of cereal seeds, in soil, in mud and in the stomach of humans, rabbits and guinea pigs.