bacillus B | aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium, often occurring in chainlike formations, found primarily in soil |
Bacillus anthracis anthrax bacillus | 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 |
Bacillus subtilis Bacillus globigii grass bacillus hay bacillus | a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter, some strains produce antibiotics |
genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
comma bacillus Vibrio comma | comma-shaped bacteria that cause Asiatic cholera |
Corynebacterium diphtheriae C. diphtheriae Klebs-Loeffler bacillus | a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria |
Salmonella enteritidis Gartner's bacillus | a form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans |
typhoid bacillus Salmonella typhosa Salmonella typhi | a form of salmonella that causes typhoid fever |
shiga bacillus Shigella dysentariae | a bacillus that causes dysentery |
tubercle bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis | cause of tuberculosis |
leprosy bacillus Mycobacterium leprae | cause of leprosy |
plague spot | a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague |
plague a | an annoyance, those children are a damn plague |
plague | any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) |
tin pest tin disease tin plague | the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery grey tin at very cold temperatures |
infestation plague | a swarm of insects that attack plants, a plague of grasshoppers |
drug addiction white plague | an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) |
plague pestilence pest | any epidemic disease with a high death rate |
plague pestilence pest pestis | a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal |
bubonic plague pestis bubonica glandular plague | the most common form of the plague in humans, characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin, does not spread from person to person |
ambulant plague ambulatory plague pestis ambulans | a mild form of bubonic plague |
Black Death Black Plague | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe |
pneumonic plague pulmonic plague plague pneumonia | a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person, characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever |
septicemic plague | an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream, does not spread from person to person |
pulmonary tuberculosis consumption phthisis wasting disease white plague | involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body |
rinderpest cattle plague | an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal), characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes |
b harass hassle harry chivy chivvy chevy chevvy beset plague molest provoke bbba | annoy continually or chronically, He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked, This man harasses his female co-workers |
blight plague | cause to suffer a blight, Too much rain may blight the garden with mold |