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How to use bacillus in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Bacillus means any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease. Example: “The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic.”

Examples of bacillus by meaning

nounAny of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.

  • "You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

nounSomething which spreads like bacterial infection.

  • The “bacillus of boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.”1934 [2018], Gottfried Haberler quoted in Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 71

More sentences with bacillus

  • The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic.From the entry semiparasitic
  • Fusobacteria are fusiform bacilli (spindled rods).From the entry fusiform
  • Ingestion of the bacillus results in intestinal infection and eventual bacillemia.2009, Diseases of Poultry, →ISBN, page 946. From the entry bacillemia
  • One lie in the presence of a policeman seemed to multiply like bacilli.1974, Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul, New York: Pocket Books, page 94. From the entry bacilli
  • It is anaphylactic in nature and due to autolyzed diphtheria bacillus protein.1924, George Rudolph Herrmann, Methods in Medicine. From the entry pseudonegative
  • Lepra is an endemic, chronic, malignant, constitutional disease, due to a specific bacillus.1914, Henry Weightman Stelwagon, Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, 7th edition, page 914. From the entry lepra
  • This was a rather long, thick bacillus with rounded edges, and only staining with difficulty.1908, K.F. Meyer, “Experimental studies on a specific purulent nephritis of equidae”, in Transvaal Department of Agriculture, editor…. From the entry mucosity
  • Melioidosis is the etiological designation of a spectrum of clinical manifestations caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei.2013, Prakash S. Bisen, Ruchika Raghuvanshi, Emerging Epidemics: Management and Control, unnumbered page. From the entry melioidosis
  • Such media are called differential media (e.g., eosin methylene blue or MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli.1996, Samuel Baron, editor, Medical Microbiology. From the entry medium
  • Bacillus anthracis: from the first up to the sixth day, this microorganism was isolatable, or in other words still alive.1957, Communicationes Veterinariae - Volumes 1-3, page 52. From the entry microorganism
  • "You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus."1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry infinitesimal
  • One is a microscopic rod-shaped bacterium called bacillus anthracis, easy to grow in the lab but fragile and easily killed in the open.2001, The Guardian, 10 Oct 01. From the entry rod-shaped
  • Beraneck's tuberculin consists of equal parts of the filtrate of a culture of tubercle bacilli and a 1 per cent. orthophosphoric extract of the residue.1916, Alexander Bryan Johnson, General topics, blood vessels, plastic operations, muscles, nerves, wounds, radium, page 216. From the entry orthophosphoric
  • Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis).1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique. From the entry refractile
  • Derived from a bacillus commonly found in soil and water, a new antigerm chemical, polymyxin, is 25 times more effective than streptomycin in treating one severe skin infection.1948 November, Popular Mechanics, volume 90, number 5, page 140. From the entry antigerm

Meaning of bacillus

  1. noun Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
  2. noun Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
  3. noun Something which spreads like bacterial infection.

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Questions about bacillus in a sentence

How do you use bacillus in a sentence?
Bacillus is used as a noun. For example: “The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic.”
What is a short sentence with bacillus?
“Fusobacteria are fusiform bacilli (spindled rods).”
What does bacillus mean?
Bacillus means any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.

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