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Definition of Spirochaeta

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

Medical Definition of Spirochaeta

1. A genus of flexible, spiral rods found in hydrogen sulfide-containing mud, sewage, and polluted water. None of the species properly referred to in this genus are pathogenic. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spirochaeta

Literary usage of Spirochaeta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pathology and Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases of Animals by Veranus Alva Moore (1916)
"The genus spirochaeta is given by Migula as one of the ... The genera spirochaeta and Spirillum were first described by Ehrenberg. ..."

2. A Text-book Upon the Pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for Students of by Joseph McFarland (1915)
"For it Novy later suggested the name spirochaeta kochi. In 1906 Norris, Pappenheimer and Flournoy§ found a spirochaeta in the blood of a patient suffering ..."

3. Household Bacteriology for Students in Domestic Sciences by Estelle Denis Buchanan, Robert Earle Buchanan (1913)
"The genus spirochaeta is variously regarded. By some authors it is grouped with the bacteria, by others with the protozoa, while others believe (and ..."

4. Pathogenic Micro-organisms; a Text-book of Microbiology for Physicians and by Ward J. MacNeal, Herbert Upham Williams (1914)
"spirochaeta Anserina.—Sacharoff in 1890 discovered this spiral organism in the blood of ... spirochaeta Muris.—This is a very short spirochete which occurs ..."

5. A Text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of by Joseph McFarland (1915)
"For it Novy later suggested the name spirochaeta kochi. In 1906 Norris, Pappenheimer and Flournoy§ found a spirochaeta in the blood of a patient suffering ..."

6. A Text-book Upon the Pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa: For Students of by Joseph McFarland (1919)
"This having been extensively studied by Novy, has since been called spirochaeta novyi. With the work of Schaudinn and his associate, Hoffman,|| the ..."

7. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology by William Allen Pusey (1917)
"tionally well, even at rest—another distinctive characteristic. Long forms bent in the middle are occasionally seen. From spirochaeta ..."

8. The Journal of Medical Research (1906)
"In the same communication in which Schaudinn l; gives more minutely the characteristics of spirochaeta plicatilis, he states that the organism originally ..."

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