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Definition of Spirochetal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Spirochetal
1. Relating to spirochetes, especially to infection with such organisms. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spirochetal
Literary usage of Spirochetal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"ON THE spirochetal INFECTION OF ULCERS IN CHINA * HE EGGERS (From the Laboratory
of Pathology and Bacteriology, Harvard Medical School of China, Shanghai, ..."
2. Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Preventive Medicine by G. Koehler, Bernard Fantus, William Augustus Evans (1921)
"An attempt should not be made to carry the group effect theory too far, as there
are, apparently, some spirochetal diseases, such as Weil's disease and ..."
3. American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory by Jaques Cattell, Jaques Cattell Press (1921)
"... 'red-leg' in frogs; spirochete and spirochetal infection in man; spirochetal
infection of white rats; multiple systemic sarcoma of myelogenous origin; ..."
4. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"The progressive features of tabes may perhaps lie correlated with the practically
proved continuous activity of spirochetal life in these cases, ..."
5. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1908)
"... so-called, is shown to be of spirochetal origin, that would not necessarily
mean that human malignant tumors are also spirochetal growths. ..."
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