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Bacillary   Listen
adjective
Bacillary  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.
2.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to bacilli; produced by, or containing, bacilli; bacillar; as, a bacillary disease.





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"Bacillary" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a glycerine extract of a pure cultivation of tubercle bacilli, the local effect of which, when injected into a healthy guinea-pig, produces a nodule found at the point of inoculation, which, when a second puncture is perpetrated, causes what may be called the bacillary fluid to be brought into the current of its circulation, so that the infected tissue may react upon the agent which it had previously been able to resist. I am not quite sure that I have got the exact words, but that's the ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various
... patients reached us as emaciated skeletons, in the last stage of exhaustion. Special wards were set aside for typhoid cases. Dysentery was also increasing, and wards were reserved for these cases. It was mainly what is called bacillary dysentery, for which Epsom salts is one of the best remedies. All typhoid cases, as soon as convalescent, were sent to India. That was because they often carry the germs in the intestinal tract a long time after recovery ...
— In Mesopotamia • Martin Swayne
... bacillary forms of gangrene all assume the moist type from the first, and, spreading rapidly, result in extensive necrosis of ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles


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