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spirochetolysins

spirochetolysins is the plural of spirochetolysin.

Meaning of spirochetolysin

Noun

spirochetolysin (countable and uncountable, plural spirochetolysins)

  1. An agent (substance) that performs spirochetolysis, that is, one that lyses spirochetes.
    • The man who recognized the spirochetolysis of pathogenic tissue spirochetes was probably only Bergel. He reported that the lipolytic ferment excreted from lymphatic cells may cause the spirochetolysis destroying the lipoid membrane of the spirochetes, and this plays the main role in the protective...1955, T Tani, M Matsubara, T Hayashi, “Pfeiffer's phenomenon of syphilis spirochetes and active immunization against syphilis”, in Japanese Journal of Medical Science and Biology, volume 8, number 3...

Questions about spirochetolysins

What is spirochetolysins the plural of?
Spirochetolysins is the plural of spirochetolysin.

Words near spirochetolysins in the dictionary

  1. spirocheticides
  2. spirochetocidal
  3. spirochetocide
  4. spirochetocides
  5. spirochetolysin
  6. spirochetolysins
  7. spirochetolysis
  8. spirochetolytic
  9. spirochetoses
  10. spirochetosis
  11. spirochetostatic

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