bacillus
IPA: bʌsˈɪɫʌs
noun
- Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
- Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
- (figurative, by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
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Examples of "bacillus" in Sentences
- Which disease caused by a bacillus is abbreviated as "TB"?
- It has been known for a long time that the tubercle bacillus is rapidly destroyed in the soil.
- If the anthrax bacteria, known as bacillus anthraxious (ph), actually gets into the lungs, an inhaled anthrax infection might occur.
- They did a quality check in the Slim-Fast factory and they found that they might have the presence of a bacteria called bacillus cereus.
- He finally concluded that the only remaining competitor for the distinction of causing the pestilence was a germ which he called bacillus x.
- When the anthrax bacillus is injected under the skin of sensitive animals, such as the rabbit or the guinea-pig, the microbe is found free in abundant fluid from which the white corpuscles are almost wholly absent.
- For instance, the germ that causes typhoid fever is called the _bacillus typhosus_; that which causes tuberculosis is called the bacillus tuberculosis; while the germ of diphtheria known as the _Klebs-Loeffler bacillus_, after the two men who discovered it.
- There still may be much about Cameron's Tory party that is deeply difficult to stomach, but ejecting a government that is corrupting the very well of democracy seems a perfectly good reason to put those reservations to one side and to remove this bacillus from the body politic.
- It was emphasized there, in addition, that the bacillus is dependent on the living organism for its development and multiplication, and that hence tuberculous infection is derived primarily from the expectorations of consumptives, and that it can probably also be caused by cattle suffering from «pearl disease».
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