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"SPIROCHETES" is a plural of: spirochete. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Lyme disease. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SPIROCHETES |
| English words defined with "SPIROCHETES": family Treponemataceae ♦ genus Borrelia, genus Leptospira, genus Treponema ♦ Treponemataceae. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SPIROCHETES": Leptospira interrogans. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Malignant spirochetes infect your bloodstream, eventually spreading to your spinal fluid and on into the brain. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Histopathology showing Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in Lyme disease. Dieterle silver stain. Credit: CDC. |  | Two spirochetes bound to a 0.2 µm filter. Strain RGA was isolated in 1915 by Uhlenhuth and Fromme from the blood of a soldier in Belgium. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Leptospires are long, thin motile spirochetes. (references) | |
Lyme disease spirochetes disseminate from the site of the tick bite by cutaneous, lymphatic and blood borne routes. (references) | ||
Evidence is accumulating that these closely related, but different, spirochetes are associated with somewhat different disease expressions. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spirochetes | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"SPIROCHETES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perchettes, Sparcettes, spirchete, spirochaete, spirochate, spirochet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: spirochete. | |
-2 letters: coheiress, heterosis, isotheres, ostriches, poetisers, postiches, precisest, protheses, prothesis, sheepcots, spheriest, storeship, theorises, tricepses. | |
-3 letters: cheerios, chestier, coesites, coteries, crepiest, crispest, crosstie, esoteric, heisters, heptoses, heretics, herpetic, hipsters, hoisters, horsiest, hospices, hotpress, isothere, orchises, perishes, picotees, pitchers, poetiser, poetises, poetries, postiche, potiches, precises, prosects, prosiest, prosties, receipts, recopies, reposits, respects, respites. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: spirochaetes. | |
+2 letters: executorships, psychometries, spirochetoses. | |
+3 letters: asthenospheric, precentorships, preceptorships, psychrometries. | |
+4 letters: chemotherapists, electrophoresis, hypersecretions, psychotherapies, spectrographies. | |
+5 letters: archiepiscopates, hyperviscosities, petrochemistries, phosphocreatines, photochemistries, phytochemistries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 50 49 52 4F 43 48 45 54 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .--. .. .-. --- -.-. .... . - . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010000 01001001 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P I R O C H E T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0049 0052 004F 0043 0048 0045 0054 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5350435249374239543953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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