comma bacillus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of comma bacillus
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Pacini had discovered the “germ”, but it was not until the German physician Robert Koch himself discovered the comma bacillus in Egypt in 1883 that germ theory became popularised.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2020
An authorling will deliberately inoculate his copy with the inverted comma bacillus, till the page swims unsteadily, counting the fever a glow of pure literary healthiness.
From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
This disease is caused by the presence of a microbe, known as the "comma bacillus," which manufactures a virulent poison, called a ptomaine.
From The Royal Road to Health by Tyrrell, Charles Alfred
Cultures of the comma bacillus were also made in agar-agar jelly, which is not liquefied by them.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
During this epidemic Koch discovered the comma bacillus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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