| 单词 | tubercle bacillus |
| 释义 | > as lemmastubercle bacillus tubercle bacillus n. [after German Tuberkelbacillus (R. Koch 1882, in Berliner klin. Wochenschr. 10 Apr. 222/1; now Tuberkelbazillus)] the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis in humans; (in later use also) any of various other, esp. pathogenic, species of Mycobacterium.In quot. 1897 attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > bacterium > bacillus > [noun] > types of tubercle bacillus1882 Koch's bacillus1885 comma (bacillus)1886 spider-cell1888 Klebs–Löffler1895 Hofmann's bacillus1897 Koch–Weeks bacillus1898 Pfeiffer's bacillus1900 Shiga1900 Hansen('s) bacillus1903 streptobacilli1903 Johne's bacillus1907 wisp bacillus1915 klebsiella1928 Shigella1937 listerella1940 coliform1951 thiobacillus1951 1882 Med. Times & Gaz. 22 Apr. 411/2 The tubercle-bacillus of Koch is a slender, rod-shaped, motionless body, in length one-quarter or one-half, or the whole diameter of a red blood-corpuscle. 1897 Daily News 1 Apr. 3/4 Both assume the so-called tubercle-bacillus tint. 1913 Times 6 Aug. 8/4 Microscopical examination of milk and tubercle bacillus by analytical methods. 1943 Arch. Dermatol. & Syphilol. 47 62 Sarcoid-like lesions have..been produced by the injection of bovine tubercle bacilli of low virulence into rabbits. 1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xxvii. 375 Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is often referred to as the ‘tubercle bacillus’ because it is rod-shaped, stands as the prototype of the pathogenic mycobacteria. 2004 J. Playfair Living with Germs (2007) ii. 27 In normal conversation among experts it is quite common to use the genus name only—Staphylococcus, Mycobacterium, Plasmodium—and sometimes an even more everyday term—staph, tubercle bacillus, malaria parasite—depending on the degree of precision required. < as lemmas |
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