paucibacillary
Medicine
adjective
Containing few bacilli; specifically designating mycobacterial infections, especially types of leprosy, in which few or no bacilli can be demonstrated in lesions or secretions; of, relating to, or suffering from such an infection.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Lancet. After French paucibacillaire.
- maple sirup disease
- maple-siruping
- maple sirup urine disease
- mapless
- maple sugar
- maple sugaring
- maple sugar urine disease
- maple syrup
- maple syrup disease
- maple-syruping
- maple syrup urine disease
- maple tree
- maple worm
- map lichen
- map light
- maplike
- map-like
- map-maker
- map-making
- map-measurer
- map-net
- mapoer
- mapou
- mappability
- mappable