| bacillary | Shaped like a rod; consisting of rods or rodlike elements. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| angiomatosis, bacillary | An infectious bacterial disease characterised by cutaneous vascular lesions. It is caused by bartonella henselae and is seen in aids patients and other immunocompromised hosts. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| chronic bacillary diarrhoea | Prolonged diarrhoea occurring in association with bacterial infection, usually occurring in patients with gastrointestinal stasis, allowing bacterial proliferation in the intestine with secondary malabsorption. Occurs in blind-loop syndrome after intestinal surgery, following vagotomy, and occasionally in scleroderma or diabetes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dysentery, bacillary | An infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus shigella. This condition is characterised by intestinal pain and diarrhoea. (12 Dec 1998) |