Associations to the word «Spirochaeta»

Wiktionary

SPIROCHAETA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Spirochaetaceae   — the spirochetes.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope