lime disease spirochete

1. 1.

   cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes

   SynonymsBorrelia burgdorferi

   Broaderspirochete

   Part ofgenus Borrelia

Questions about lime disease spirochete

What does lime disease spirochete mean?

lime disease spirochete means "cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes".

What is another word for lime disease spirochete?

Close synonyms include Borrelia burgdorferi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lime disease spirochete a common word?

lime disease spirochete is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.