shiga bacillus

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   a bacillus that causes dysentery

   SynonymsShigella dysentariae

   Broadershigella

Questions about shiga bacillus

What does shiga bacillus mean?

shiga bacillus means "a bacillus that causes dysentery".

What is another word for shiga bacillus?

Close synonyms include Shigella dysentariae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shiga bacillus a common word?

shiga bacillus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.