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• s  formed like a bacillus
• s  resembling a rod

• Magnified 24,000 diameters, the membrane of the nucleus looks solid, but poking through it are rod-shaped objects.
• From birth to death, every normal person carries in his bowels billions of rod-shaped micro-organisms which the doctors call coliform bacteria.
• Placed in a nutrient broth, the rod-shaped bacteria continued to move about.

• bacillar
• bacillary
• bacilliform
• baculiform
• rodlike

News & Articles

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• Shape of nanoparticles points the way toward more targeted drugs
  The shape of nanoparticles can enhance drug targeting, according to new research. The study found that rod-shaped nanoparticles -- or nanorods -- as opposed to spherical nanoparticles, appear to adhere more effectively to the surface of endothelial cells that line the inside of blood vessels.
  June 10, 2013 - Science Daily