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Definition of Tubercle bacillus
1. Noun. Cause of tuberculosis.
Medical Definition of Tubercle bacillus
1. The Gram-positive bacterium that causes tuberculosis. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubercle Bacillus
Literary usage of Tubercle bacillus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... and a dry and sandy sub-soil, have a distinct influence in arresting the
virulence of the tubercle-bacillus ; that darkness somewhat interferes with ..."
2. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"The leprosy bacillus may be distinguished from the tubercle bacillus by the
following points: 1. The presence ordinarily of huge numbers of bacilli often ..."
3. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"CHAPTER XXII THE tubercle bacillus No disease is so wide-spread or occasions so
much distress and economic loss as tuberculosis. ..."
4. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"CHAPTER XXIII THE tubercle bacillus No disease is so wide-spread or occasions so
much distress and economic loss as tuberculosis. ..."
5. A Text-book of Bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Philip Hanson Hiss, Hans Zinsser (1918)
"It was not until 1882, however, that Koch1 succeeded in isolating and cultivating
the tubercle bacillus. Baumgarten * had previously seen the bacillus in ..."
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