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strepto-
- a combining form meaning “twisted,” used in the formation of compound words:
streptococcus.
strepto-
combining_form
- indicating a shape resembling a twisted chain
streptococcus
- indicating streptococcus
streptolysin
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of strepto-1
Combining form of Greek ٰó pliant, twisted, twined, equivalent to strep- (variant stem of ٰé to twist) + -tos verbid suffix
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of strepto-1
from Greek streptos twisted, from strephein to twist
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Example Sentences
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We have a pseudo-bacillosis of a strepto bacillar origin, not to mention the "professional" tuberculoses, such as that to which persons are exposed who have to breathe the fumes of charcoal.
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But the older, or Strepto, cousin is by far the more dangerous character and desperate individual, giving rise to and being concerned in nearly all the civilized and dangerous wound-fevers—septicæmia, erysipelas, etc.
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