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Spirochaeta

noun
1.
The type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae; a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic.  Synonym: genus Spirochaeta.



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... trypanosome whose presence in the blood and tissues of the patient causes that dreadful disease which ends in sleeping sickness belongs here as well as do several other similar kinds that produce serious troubles for various mammals and birds. The Spirochaeta, about which there has been so much recent discussion, also belong here. These are simple spiral-like forms (Fig. 10), that are sometimes classed with the simple plants, bacteria, but Nuttall and others have shown very definitely that they should be classed with the simplest ...
— Insects and Diseases - A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread - or Cause some of our Common Diseases • Rennie W. Doane
... nervous constitution, and instead of dissipation, mental and physical, being the determining causes of his shattered health, they were really the outcome of an inherited predisposition to all that is self-destructive. The French alienists called it une heredite chargee. (No doubt the dread Spirochaeta pallida.) ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker


Words linked to "Spirochaeta" :   Spirochaetaceae, bacteria genus, genus Spirochaeta, family Spirochaetaceae


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