Bacillus
[bə'sɪləs]
Definition
(noun.) aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil.
Editor: Roxanne--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Typist: Ted
Definition
n. properly the name of a distinct genus of Schizomycetes but popularly used in the same sense as Bacterium:—pl. Bacil′lī.—adjs. Bacil′lar Bacil′lary of the shape or nature of a bacillus consisting of little rods.—n. Bacil′licide that which destroys bacilli.—adj. Bacil′liform.
Editor: Theresa
Examples
- Dr. Koch, who had srved in the Franco-Prussian War, succeeded in 1876 in obtaining pure cultures of this bacillus and in defining its relation to the dis ease. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He disco vered (with Joubert and Chamberland) the bacillus of malignant edema. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Bacillus of Cholera identified by Koch, Bacillus of Diphtheria by Loeffler, and Bacillus of Lockjaw by Nicolaier. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- BACILLUS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN SPUTUM. BACILLUS OF DIPHTHERIA (KLEBS-LOEFFLER). Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Eberth and Koch discover Bacillus of Typhoid Fever, and Sternberg the Bacillus of Pneumonia. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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