n 1  cap  :  a genus of bacteria formerly placed in the genus Campylobacter and including one (H. pylori) associated with gastritis and implicated in gastric and duodenal ulcers and gastric cancer  2  :  any bacterium of the genus Helicobacter .
 
 
 
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