#rod-shaped

• Bacillus — An old, archaic, or phonetically unadapted spelling variant of the modern term 'bacil'; a single-celled bacterial microorganism shaped like a long, thin rod. Used in medical texts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the word reflects the early stages of integrating microbiological terminology into academic Romanian, being structurally associated with pathogenic agents responsible for diseases like tuberculosis or plague.
• Bacillus — A rod-shaped, cylindrical bacterium with straight, rounded, or slightly concave ends, belonging in a broad sense to the class Bacilli, comprising numerous pathogenic or saprophytic microorganisms. These biological agents can be aerobic or anaerobic and are responsible for causing severe infectious diseases in human and animal organisms, such as tuberculosis, anthrax, tetanus, or leprosy, while also playing crucial roles in industrial fermentation processes.
• Bacillary — Pertaining to bacilli, relating to them, or directly caused by a rod-shaped bacterium; presenting a cylindrical or elongated structural form. In medical pathology, the adjective describes lesions, infections, or systemic dysfunctions resulting from a bacterial invasion of this type, frequently used in clinical diagnoses such as dysentery or pneumonia.
• Bacillary — The feminine singular form of the adjective bacilar; pertaining to bacilli, relating to rod-shaped bacteria, or directly caused by them. In clinical semiology, the term qualifies anatomical structures, cellular cultures, or acute pathological conditions that present an elongated morphology or have a microorganism from the class Bacilli as their etiological agent, such as severe intestinal or pulmonary infections.
• Bacilliform — Having the shape of a bacillus; an elongated, cylindrical, or rod-shaped anatomical, cellular, or microscopic structure. The term is primarily used in microbiology to describe the external morphology of certain bacteria, but also in botany or mineralogy to classify elements with a filamentous, rigid appearance and rounded ends.