Definition of "aureus" []

• A gold coin minted during the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C. to 309 A.D., equal to 25 denarii. (noun)

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• "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunist – any ‘opening’, for example: intro of an i.v. line; suture lines, etc. can become host to this ‘nasty bug’."
• "If someone studied the ability of, say, the human microcephalin gene to generate resistance to penicillin in S. aureus, and found that it never did even when extensively mutagenized, only a fool would conclude that this means that S. aureus is incapable of developing resistance to penicillin."
• "In the late Empire, it was hoped that new coins -- the silver "nummus" and the gold "aureus" -- would restore confidence during periods of devastating inflation."