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Cinder, by Marissa Meyer
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What's going to happen next is that the med-droid is going to inject you with a one-tenth solution of letumosis microbes.†
p. 83.1

microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
Once your body enters into the first stage of the disease, your immune system will kick in and try to destroy the microbes, but it will fail.†
p. 83.3
A microbe, it was right here, I was looking right at it, and now it's gone.†
p. 89.5 *

microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
When all the microbes have disappeared, have her taken into lab four.†
p. 90.1

microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
This is where we injected the letumosis-carrying microbes.†
p. 98.1
As you can see, the microbes are gone.†
p. 98.3
You said before that I wasn't contagious after my body got rid of those microbes.†
p. 118.9
I've had needles poked at me and prongs stuck in my head and poisonous microbes—" She caught herself, not wanting Adri to know the truth.†
p. 133.6

Definitions:

(1) (microbe)
a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)