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| rickettsiaceae
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| rickettsial disease
| rickettsiales
| rickettsialpox
rickettsia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rickettsia has 1 sense
- rickettsia(n = noun.animal) - any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings; is a kind of eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria
is a member of family rickettsiaceae, rickettsiaceae
Derived form adjective rickettsial1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rickettsia, n. a parasitic micro-organism of the genus Rickettsia causing typhus and other febrile diseases.
Derivative
rickettsial adj.
Etymology
mod.L f. H. T. Ricketts, Amer. pathologist d. 1910
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