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TREPONEMA
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Irregular inflected form: treponemata
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("treponema" is a kind of...):
spirochaete; spirochete (parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals)
Holonyms ("treponema" is a member of...):
genus Treponema (type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body; parasitic in warm-blooded animals)
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