bacilloscopy

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noun

The examination of a diagnostic smear (typically of skin or sputum) in order to verify the presence of specific bacilli

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Meanings

nounbacilloscopy (plural bacilloscopies)

plural bacilloscopies

  1. The examination of a diagnostic smear (typically of skin or sputum) in order to verify the presence of specific bacilli

    Genitourinary tuberculosis is often diagnosed in the later stage due to the fact that the symptoms are non-specific and technical difficulties to isolate the tubercle bacillus through bacilloscopy or culture in specific medium are many.

    2012 December 17, Marcelo Rodrigues Bacci, José Jorge Namura, Andrea Thaumaturgo Lera, “Complicated urinary infection and extrapulmonary tuberculosis”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2012, →DOI

Origin

From bacillo- + -scopy.

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