| bacillar | <biology> Shaped like a rod or staff. Origin: L. Bacillum little staff. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bacillariae | <biology> See Diatom. Origin: NL, fr.L. Bacillum, dim. Of baculum stick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bacillary | Shaped like a rod; consisting of rods or rodlike elements. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bacillary dysentery | Infection with Shigella dysenteriae, S. Flexneri, or other organisms. Synonym: Japanese dysentery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bacillary haemoglobinuria | An acute toxaemic disease of cattle caused by the bacterium Clostridium haemolyticum and characterised by severe depression, fever, abdominal pain, dyspnea, dysentery, haemoglobinuria, and rapid death; also occurs in sheep and, rarely, in dogs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bacillary layer | The layer of the retina next to the pigment layer and containing the visual receptors. See: retina, granular layers of retina, neuroepithelial layer of retina. Synonym: bacillary layer. (05 Mar 2000) |