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
A group of apes and chimpanzees was inoculated with the bacillary vaccine of Calmette and Guerin, B. C. G. for short.
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 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
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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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