See Also: shigella(medicine)
shigella(dictionary)
shigella(encyclopedia)
Shigella dysenteriae(medicine)
Shigella sonnei(medicine)
shigella boydii(medicine)
shigella flexneri(medicine)

shigella (iou)



shigella noun. , -llas. M20.
[mod. Latin Shigella (see below), from SHIGA + -ELLA.]
Bacteriology.
1. Any of various Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Shigella (family Enterobacteriaceae), which includes several intestinal pathogens. M20.
2. In full Shigella dysentery. = shigellosis. M20.
shige'llosis noun, pl. -lloses , infection with, or a disease caused by, shigellae M20.