spirochetostatic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From spirochete + -static (with -o-).
Pronunciation
[edit]IPA(key): /ˌspaɪroʊˌkitəˈstætɪk/
Adjective
[edit]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[1], 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.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- spirocheticidal (spirochetostatic is to spirocheticidal as bacteriostatic is to bacteriocidal)
- spirochetocidal
- spirochetolytic