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A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]
n.
A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
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A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.
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A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
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Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.
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A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.
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Shaped like a rod or staff.
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A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta.
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See Diatom.
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The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.
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A blue coloring matter found in the pus from old sores, supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium (Bacillus pyocyaneus).
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An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.
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Rod-shaped.
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of Bacillus
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A microorganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
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One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.
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