strepto-

1. a combining form meaning “twisted,” used in the formation of compound words.

   streptococcus.

strepto-

combining form

1. indicating a shape resembling a twisted chain

   streptococcus

2. indicating streptococcus

   streptolysin

Word History and Origins

Origin of strepto-¹

Combining form of Greek streptós pliant, twisted, twined, equivalent to strep- (variant stem of stréphein to twist) + -tos verbid suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of strepto-¹

from Greek streptos twisted, from strephein to twist

Example Sentences

We have a pseudo-bacillosis of a strepto bacillar origin, not to mention the "professional" tuberculoses, such as that to which persons are exposed who have to breathe the fumes of charcoal.

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But the older, or Strepto, cousin is by far the more dangerous character and desperate individual, giving rise to and being concerned in nearly all the civilized and dangerous wound-fevers—septicæmia, erysipelas, etc.

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