bacillus
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(bă-sil′ŭs)


(bă-sil′ī″, ē″)
pl. bacilli [L. bacillus, diminutive of baculum, a staff, walking stick]
1. A rod-shaped microorganism.
2. A rod-shaped microorganism belonging to the class Schizomycetes.
SEE: Bacillus; SEE: bacterium
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(bă-sil′ŭs)


(bă-sil′ī″, ē″)
pl. bacilli [L. bacillus, diminutive of baculum, a staff, walking stick]
1. A rod-shaped microorganism.
2. A rod-shaped microorganism belonging to the class Schizomycetes.
SEE: Bacillus; SEE: bacterium
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Bacillus." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/736089/all/Koch_bacillus.
Bacillus. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/736089/all/Koch_bacillus. Accessed March 25, 2023.
Bacillus. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/736089/all/Koch_bacillus
Bacillus [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 March 25]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/736089/all/Koch_bacillus.
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