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Definition of Leprosy bacillus
1. Noun. Cause of leprosy.
Medical Definition of Leprosy bacillus
1. A species of gram-positive, aerobic bacteria that causes leprosy in man. Its organisms are generally arranged in clumps, rounded masses, or in groups of bacilli side by side. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leprosy Bacillus
Literary usage of Leprosy bacillus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... described a " leprosy bacillus " corresponding in size and in certain points
of staining reaction to the tubercle bacillus, and it is now generally ..."
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 XXIII THE BACILLUS OF LEPROSY (BACILLUS LEPRE) At the present day this
disease is most common in ... Characteristics of the leprosy bacillus (B. ..."
4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"The leprosy bacillus may be distinguished from the tubercle bacillus by the
following points: ... leprosy bacillus ..."
5. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"The leprosy bacillus cannot be ... was held be- the discovery of the leprosy
bacillus, that the disease associated in some way with the eating of certain s ..."
6. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1892)
"On the Cultivation of the leprosy bacillus (A. DUCREY, Naples).—In a paper on
the cultivation of the leprosy bacillus M. Ducrey related, that in ten cases ..."
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