单词 | spirochete |
释义 | spirochete —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; < NL spirochaeta. See SPIRO-2, CHAETA-] |
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