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treponemal

treponemal adjective: pertaining to or caused by treponema.

Adjective

treponemal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to or caused by treponema
    • Tuberculosis developed, as did pinta and other treponemal infections, including non-venereal syphilis, various diseases caused by intestinal parasites, and Chagas' disease.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 159
    • Soil erosion may sometimes produce defects with smooth edges that may imitate remodeled margins. There may be a close resemblance, for example, between cranial vault destruction due to treponemal disease and taphonomic damage[…].2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29

Origin of treponemal

From treponema + -al.

Words formed from treponemal

Questions about treponemal

What does treponemal mean?
Treponemal means pertaining to or caused by treponema.
What part of speech is treponemal?
Treponemal is an adjective.

Words near treponemal in the dictionary

  1. trepidity
  2. trepidly
  3. trepidness
  4. trepipam
  5. treponema
  6. treponemal
  7. treponemas
  8. treponemata
  9. treponematoses
  10. treponematosis
  11. treponematous

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