bacilloscopy means the examination of a diagnostic smear (typically of skin or sputum) in order to verify the presence of specific bacilli. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
Etymology
From bacillo- + -scopy.
noun
- 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.”