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.
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