spirochete

IPA: spˈɪroʊʃʌt

Any of several coiled bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, most of which are pathogenic to both humans and other animals.

Examples of "spirochete" in Sentences

One or both ends of the spirochete are usually hooked.
Damn spirochete tries to kick my ass, I will kick its ass.
The spirochete hypothesis has been pretty much discredited.
Bacteroides and spirochetes colonize the mouth around puberty.
The spirochetes multiply and migrate outward within the dermis.
Perhaps their two functioning brain cells are held together by a spirochete?
Perhaps their two functioning brain cells are held together by a spirochete? —
She thinks the flagellum came about by symbiogenesis of a spirochete with another bacteria.
The logic was circular, the language tethered only to itself, not to something as solid as a spirochete or a bacillus.
Caused by the bacteria known as a spirochete (the same bacteria that causes syphilis), it is contracted by drinking water contaminated with animal urine.
Because it vaguely resembled the spiraling trypanosomes, it made sense to see whether compound 418, which had killed those germs so well, would also attack the syphilis spirochete.
Syphilis is caused by an organism called Treponema pallidum, which is a type of bacterium called a spirochete, and is characterised by three stages: primary syphilis, secondary syphilis and tertiary syphilis.