Definitions for spirochete
spirochete
spi·ro·chete
Spelling: [spahy-ruh-keet]
IPA: /ˈspaɪ rəˌkit/
Spirochete is a 10 letter English word.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 997 anagrams from letters in spirochete (ceehioprst).
Definitions for spirochete
noun
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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.
Origin of spirochete
1875-80; New Latin spīrochaeta. See spiro-2, chaeta-
Examples for spirochete
By far the most important of these is the spirillum or spirochete of Obermeier, which has been already carefully described.