bacillo-, bacill-, bacilli- +

1. A sudden disaster, defeat, or humiliating failure.
2. A sudden, disastrous collapse, a downfall, or a defeat; a rout.
3. A total, often ludicrous failure.
4. A sudden breakup of river ice in the spring thaw, causing a violent rush of water and ice.
5. Etymology: originally, "breaking up of ice in a river, a disaster" from French debacle, "breaking up of ice, disaster", from debacler, "to free"; from Middle French débâcler, "to unbar" (de-, "off, un-", from Latin dis- + bacler, "to bar"; from Old Provencal baclar from Vulgar Latin bacculare; from bacculum, "bar, staff"; a variant of Latin baculum, "stick".

1. Two rod-shaped bacterial cells linked end to end.
2. A short, rod-shaped organism occurring in pairs, joined end-to-end; diplobacterium.

A bacterium normally found in the mouth, intestinal tract, and vagina.

Lactobacillus can also live in fermenting products; such as, yogurt. Humans appear to have a symbiotic relationship with this bacteria.

Lactobacillus has been with us so long that some types have become an important part of food digestion, although Lactobacillus can also contribute to cavities in the teeth if allowed to remain within the mouth too long.

Large rod-shaped bacterium.

Any of several diseased conditions in domestic animals; especially, hogs, cattle, horses, rabbits, and sheep; causing tissue death of various kinds, diphtheria with abscesses, and gangrenous dermatitis.

Occurring before the entrance of bacilli into the system, or before they become discoverable.

Bacilli that remain attached in chains after cell division.

1. Small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur.
2. A rod-shaped bacteria that derives energy from the oxidation of one or more reduced sulfur compounds.

Its organisms are widely distributed in marine, freshwater, and soil environments, especially where oxidizable sulfur is abundant.