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bacillus
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bacillus is a stick insect genus, common in Europe . Bacillus atticus atticus is an endemic species found in Greece and Bacillus rossius is found in Europe. Bacillus peristhenellus is found in Australia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, medical Latin, from Late Latin bacillus "wand," literally "little staff," diminutive of baculum "a stick," from PIE root *bak- "staff," also source of Greek bakterion (see bacteria ). Introduced as a term in bacteriology 1853 by German botanist Ferdinand ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN tubercle ▪ We are not likely to find a cause as precisely as the tubercle bacillus can be shown to produce tuberculosis. ▪ After the tubercle bacillus was identified, accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, of the lungs ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus ''Bacillus'', some of which cause disease.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bacillus \Ba*cil"lus\, n.; pl. Bacilli . [NL., for L. bacillum. See Bacillari[ae] .] (Biol.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Usage examples of bacillus.
We even tried aureomycin, in case the bacilli were resistant to streptomycin.
In five days they were dead, with exactly those symptoms their brothers had, after injections of the living diphtheria bacilli.
He took these creatures and shot an enormous dose of diphtheria bacilli into them.
The vaccine was basically weakened tubercle bacilli which were injected into the skin, then followed by injections of various drugs such as ethambutol, rifampicin, thiacetazone, and poyrazinamide, and sometimes streptomycin, isioniazid, and para-aminosalicylic acid.
Moreover, at the present time, when there is so much talk about the inoculative treatment of pulmonary consumption by the cultivated virus of its special microbe, it is highly interesting to know that the helenin of Elecampane is said to be peculiarly destructive to the bacillus of tubercular disease.
So he ranged abroad and gathered to his laboratory and injected his beloved terrible bacilli into tortoises, sparrows, five frogs and three eels.
Metchnikoff came out of the fog of his theory of phagocytes for a moment, and tried to satisfy them by sowing chicken cholera bacilli among the meadow mice which were eating up the crops.
Koch had finished his virulent and partly comic wrangle with Pasteur, who was just then with prodigious enthusiasm saving the lives of sheep and cattle in France, the discoverer of the tubercle bacillus started sniffing along the trail of one of the most delicate, the most easy to kill, and yet the most terribly savage of all microbes.
Most housing had been swallowed by beds of swampy fuzz, but a few buildings were so larded with chemical fungicides and brews of biological toxins that local bacilli and thallophytes had never established a foothold.
On Plates VII and VIII two kinds of unicellular organisms are shown, of one which - the green algae - is accustomed to live in light, the other - the bacilli - in darkness.
Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence.
As active bacilli or after sporulation on contact with air, the disease was literally designed to spread into the countryside.
But then he had picked up Scientific American to find a lengthy and colorful article by Sergei Forward on how he, the great Finnish research bacteriologist, had discovered how to mutate various bacilli with Uranium.
Nazi culture, if the group be understood as a common commitment to shared cultural ends and to the biomedical ideology defining the Jew as bacillus.
Koch had studied them carefully and found them to be veritable menageries of hideous scum-forming bacilli and strange cocci and other foreign creatures that had no business there.