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English
Etymology
From spirochete + -static (with -o-).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˌspaɪroʊˌkitəˈstætɪk/
Adjective
spirochetostatic (comparative more spirochetostatic, superlative most spirochetostatic)
- (medicine, biology) Inhibiting (curbing) spirochetal populations although not destroying them.
1944, Cedric C. Carpenter, “Failure of penicillin to prevent syphilis”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 43, number 2, pages 389–390:As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
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