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Definition of Bacillus anthracis
1. Noun. A species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon.
Medical Definition of Bacillus anthracis
1. A species of bacteria that causes anthrax in humans and animals. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacillus Anthracis
Literary usage of Bacillus anthracis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"ática: on blood-serum, bacillus anthracis on agar-agar, bacillus ty- phi abdominalis
on agar-agar, bacillus coli communis on agar-agar, bacillus pneumonias ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"Not only so, but the further results prove that the inhibitory and deadly effects
of direct insolation are not confined to bacillus anthracis, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF bacillus anthracis. ... of light on
the bacillus anthracis, with the object of testing the work of Messrs. ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"369, states that he succeeded in transforming the common bacillus of hay-infusion,
the hay-bacillus, into the bacillus anthracis. The hay-bacillus and the ..."
5. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"... с). lt is a symbiotic association of three distinct organisms. FlG. 23.—Bacillus
anthracis, THE ... GROWTHS OF bacillus anthracis PRODUCED BY ..."
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