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spirochetes

n. (plural of spirochete English)

Usage examples of "spirochetes".

Schaudinn that spirochetes had anything to do with trypanosomes, but it set Paul Ehrlich aflame.

Of a wretch, so dreadfully had the pale spirochetes gnawed at his throat that he had had to be fed liquid food through a tube for months.

A surprising number, like the ubiquitous intestinal spirochetes, have no detectable function at all.

The spirochetes of syphilis, brought back from the New World by the intrepid explorers on the ships of Columbus, are of no more concern to the blood-drinker than the molecules of alcohol or the harsh dissonance of cocaine.