transcription, транскрипция: [ bə-ˈsi-ləs ]
noun
( plural ba·cil·li -ˌlī also -lē)
Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, small staff, rod, diminutive of Latin baculus staff, alteration of baculum
Date: circa 1879
1. : any of a genus ( Bacillus ) of rod-shaped gram-positive usually aerobic bacteria producing endospores and including many saprophytes and some parasites (as B. anthracis of anthrax) ; broadly : a straight rod-shaped bacterium
2. : bacterium ; especially : a disease-producing bacterium