adjective
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of, relating to, or caused by bacilli
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Also: bacilliform. shaped like a short rod
Etymology
Origin of bacillary
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
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
Afterwards the contents of these latter cells become divided into numerous bacillary spermatozoids, which first break the wall of their mother cell, and then issue from the antheridium.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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