bacilli

Noun

The word is derived from bacillus

Meaning

of Bacillus

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It [the city Berlin] stinks of perfume, they have water on their brains and they live as food for bacilli and shamelessly like dogs. Emil Nolde

A chest X-ray and multiple sputum cultures for acid-fast bacilli are typically part of the initial evaluation. Source: Internet

Bacillus anthracis Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows splenic tissue from a monkey with inhalational anthrax; featured are rod-shaped bacilli (yellow) and an erythrocyte (red). Source: Internet

George Bernard Shaw called them "uncouth bacilli". Source: Internet

If antibiotics are administered too late, even if the antibiotics eradicate the bacteria, some hosts will still die of toxemia because the toxins produced by the bacilli remain in their system at lethal dose levels. Source: Internet

Because the living bacilli evolve to make the best use of available nutrients, they become less well-adapted to human blood and can no longer induce disease when introduced into a human host. Source: Internet

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