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bacillus

24 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. bacillus (noun)
  2. bacillus Calmette-Guérin (noun)
  3. Bordet-Gengou bacillus (noun)
  4. coli bacillus (noun)
  5. colon bacillus (noun)
  6. comma bacillus (noun)
  7. Ducrey's bacillus (noun)
  8. Friedländer's bacillus (noun)
  9. Gärtner's bacillus (noun)
  10. gas bacillus (noun)
  11. Hansen's bacillus (noun)
  12. Johne's bacillus (noun)
  13. Klebs-Löffler bacillus (noun)
  14. Koch's bacillus (noun)
  15. Koch-Weeks bacillus (noun)
  16. Legionnaires' bacillus (noun)
  17. Morax-Axenfeld bacillus (noun)
  18. Pfeiffer's bacillus (noun)
  19. Shiga bacillus (noun)
  20. smegma bacillus (noun)
  21. tetanus bacillus (noun)
  22. tubercle bacillus (noun)
  23. vole bacillus (noun)
  24. Welch bacillus (noun)

ba·cil·lus

noun \bə-ˈsil-əs\
plural ba·cil·li \-ˌī also -ē\

Definition of BACILLUS

1
a capitalized : a genus of rod-shaped gram-positive endospore-producing usually aerobic bacteria of the family Bacillaceae that include many saprophytes and some parasites (as B. anthracis of anthrax) b : any bacterium of the genus Bacillus; broadly : a straight rod-shaped bacterium
2
: bacterium; especially : a disease-producing bacterium

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