SPIROCHETE


Meaning of SPIROCHETE in English

— spirochetal, spirochetic , adj.

/spuy"reuh keet'/ , n.

any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.

Also, spirochaete .

[ 1875-80; spirochaeta. See SPIRO- 2 , CHAETA- ]

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