bacillus : Idioms & Phrases

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anthrax bacillus

  • noun a species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon
    anthrax bacillus.
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bacillus anthracis

  • noun a species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon
    anthrax bacillus.
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bacillus globigii

  • noun a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce antibiotics
    Bacillus globigii; grass bacillus; Bacillus subtilis.
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bacillus subtilis

  • noun a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce antibiotics
    Bacillus globigii; grass bacillus; Bacillus subtilis.
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Cholera bacillus

  • . See Comma bacillus.
Webster 1913

Comma bacillus

  • noun comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic cholera
    Vibrio comma.
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  • (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; called also cholera bacillus.
Webster 1913

gartner's bacillus

  • noun a form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans
    Salmonella enteritidis.
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genus bacillus

  • noun type genus of the Bacillaceae; includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites
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grass bacillus

  • noun a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce antibiotics
    Bacillus globigii; grass bacillus; Bacillus subtilis.
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hay bacillus

  • noun a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce antibiotics
    Bacillus globigii; grass bacillus; Bacillus subtilis.
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klebs-loeffler bacillus

  • noun a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria
    Corynebacterium diphtheriae; C. diphtheriae.
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leprosy bacillus

  • noun cause of leprosy
    Mycobacterium leprae.
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shiga bacillus

  • noun a bacillus that causes dysentery
    Shigella dysentariae.
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Tubercle bacillus

  • noun cause of tuberculosis
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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  • (Med.), a minute vegetable organism (Bacillus tuberculosis) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue, and believed to be the exciting cause of tubercles and tuberculosis.
Webster 1913

typhoid bacillus

  • noun a form of salmonella that causes typhoid fever
    Salmonella typhosa; Salmonella typhi.
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