bacillary

American

[bas-uh-ler-ee, buh-sil-uh-ree] / ˈbæs əˌlɛr i, bəˈsɪl ə ri /

Also bacillar

adjective

Also bacilliform of or like a bacillus; rod-shaped.
Bacteriology. characterized by bacilli.

bacillary British

/ bəˈsɪlərɪ, bəˈsɪlə /

adjective

of, relating to, or caused by bacilli
Also: bacilliform. shaped like a short rod

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Etymology

Origin of bacillary

First recorded in 1880–85; bacill- + -ary

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"BCG did not offer any protection against adult form of bacillary pulmonary TB," according to a 1999 report on the trial.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024

A man as obsessive about germs as Hughes could hardly be comforted by the knowledge that outbreaks of polio and bacillary dysentery afflict the republic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shigellosis, a bacillary dysentery that is a virulent and highly infectious intestinal disease, is epidemic in Central America, where it has attacked more than a thousand people in Guatemala alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

A whiskery, rod-shaped germ called Bacillus dysenteriae and related to both the colon and typhoid fever germs causes bacillary dysentery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next Purkinje's figures, or shadows cast by the blood-vessels of the middle layer upon the bacillary layer of the retina.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

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