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Medical Term

bacillus

also: bacilli

1. a bacterium (see BACTERIA ) that is rod-shaped. 2. a genus of Gram-positive (see GRAM'S STAIN ) bacteria that includes B. anthracis, the cause of ANTHRAX

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