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spirochaete


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spirochaeta  \Spi`ro*ch[ae]"ta\,  Spirochaete  \Spi`ro*ch[ae]"te\, 
  n.  [L.  spira  a  coil  +  Gr  ???  hair.]  (Biol.) 
  A  genus  of  Spirobacteria  similar  to  Spirillum,  but 
  distinguished  by  its  motility.  One  species,  the 
  {Spiroch[ae]te  Obermeyeri},  is  supposed  to  be  the  cause  of 
  relapsing  fever. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Relapsing  \Re*laps"ing\,  a. 
  Marked  by  a  relapse;  falling  back  tending  to  return  to  a 
  former  worse  state. 
 
  {Relapsing  fever}  (Med.),  an  acute,  epidemic,  contagious 
  fever,  which  prevails  also  endemically  in  Ireland,  Russia, 
  and  some  other  regions.  It  is  marked  by  one  or  two 
  remissions  of  the  fever,  by  articular  and  muscular  pains, 
  and  by  the  presence,  during  the  paroxism  of  spiral 
  bacterium  ({Spiroch[ae]te})  in  the  blood.  It  is  not 
  usually  fatal.  Called  also  {famine  fever},  and  {recurring 
  fever}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  spirochaete 
  n  :  parasitic  or  free-living  bacteria;  many  pathogenic  to  humans 
  and  other  animals  [syn:  {spirochete}] 




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