treponemal

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adjective

Pertaining to or caused by treponema

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Meanings

adjectivetreponemal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyPertaining 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
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    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
treponematous

Origin

From treponema + -al.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

treponemal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treponemal

MLA

“treponemal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treponemal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “treponemal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treponemal.

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