strepto

Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word strepto.

A coccus forming such a chain of cells is called _strepto-coccus_ (chain-coccus).

Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
It is conceivable that this feeble and harmless white coccus may at some time have been accelerated under favorable circumstances to where he was endowed with "yellow" powers, and even, upon another turn of the screw, with strepto-virulence.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
Other vaccines that are planned for the China market include a rotavirus vaccine for children (rotavirus causes diarrhea, which can be a serious disease in remote regions), a strepto pneumonia vaccine, which received authorization from the European Commission at the end of March, and a lung cancer vaccine, which may help eliminate all the cancer cells after patients go through chemotherapy or surgery.

unknown title 2009