"spirocheticidal" meaning in English

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      "form": "more spirocheticidal",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "alt": "spirochetostatic is to spirocheticidal as bacteriostatic is to bacteriocidal",
          "word": "spirochetostatic"
        }
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          "ref": "1944, H Eagle, AD Musselman, “The spirocheticidal action of penicillin in vitro and its temperature coefficient”, in Journal of Experimental Medicine, volume 80, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, pages 493–505",
          "text": "Penicillin was found to be actively spirocheticidal in vitro against the Reiter, Kazan, Nichols, and Noguchi strains of so called S. pallida, and a strain of mouth spirochetes.",
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        "Killing spirochetes."
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        "(medicine, biology) Killing spirochetes."
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        {
          "word": "spirochetolytic"
        },
        {
          "word": "spirochetocidal"
        }
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      "other": "/ˌspaɪroʊˌkitɪˈsaɪdəl/"
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  "word": "spirocheticidal"
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "word": "spirochetolytic"
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