fusiform bacillus

noun

: a rod-shaped bacterium (Fusobacterium fusiforme or Fusiformis plauti-vincenti) having one blunt and one pointed end and being typically associated in pairs with the blunt ends apposed forming a fusiform figure see vincent's infection

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