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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 spi·ro·chaete /ˈspaɪrəˌkit/
 波狀菌

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 spi·ro·chaete /ˈspaɪrəˌkɪt/ 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Re·laps·ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
 Relapsing fever Med., an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochaete) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spi·ro·chae·ta Spi·ro·chae·te n.  Biol. A genus of Spirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochaete Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 spirochaete
      n : parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans
          and other animals [syn: spirochete]