strep
/strɛp
/noun Medicine, informal
Short for streptococcus.His wife Sally was rushed into emergency surgery on Friday with the strep A bacteria infecting her leg....
- During this period Jonas Salk was in medical school, becoming a research assistant to a chemistry professor and developing ways to harvest the strep bacterium for further study.
- They react to tissues in the heart valves as though they were the strep bacteria and cause the heart valves to thicken and scar.
Rhymes
- palatalize
- palatally
- palatal tooth
- palate
- palate bone
- palated
- palateless
- palatial
- palatially
- palatian
- palatinal
- palatinate
- palatinate purple
- Palatine
- palatine bone
- palatine index
- palatine tonsil
- palatine tooth
- palatine uvula
- palatitis
- palative
- palato-alveolar
- palato-dental
- palatoglossal
- palatoglossus