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[VirusLexicon]:[spirothete]

Spirothete: noun.

Spirothete, a word coined to describe a living being, initially created as an artifact, from Latin, spiro -are; intransit., to breathe, blow, draw breath; to be alive; to have inspiration; be inspired; transit., to breath out, expire (also L/Gk spiros the breath of life) and synthetic adj 1: (chemistry) not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially 2: involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis. Initially introduced on the CoV in 2002 [http://virus.lucifer.com/archive/0205/2636.html]. Refer also [ArtificialIntelligence] and [SpirothetesAndHumans].

Also Spirothetic, adjective, describing something having the attributes of a spirothete.

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