bacillary

American  

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

Also bacillar

adjective

1. Also bacilliform of or like a bacillus; rod-shaped.

2. Bacteriology. characterized by bacilli.

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bacillary British  

/ bəˈsɪlərɪ, bəˈsɪlə /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or caused by bacilli

2. Also: bacilliform.  shaped like a short rod

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Etymology

Origin of bacillary

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

Example Sentences

"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

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

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

In some forms a protozoan, the Amoeba dysenteriae, is found in the stools—this is the amoebic dysentery; in other cases a bacillus, Bacillus dysenteriae, is found—the bacillary dysentery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various