| ADJECTIVE | pert | rickettsial | relating to or caused by rickettsias |
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| Meaning | relating to or caused by rickettsias. | |
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| Nouns | rickettsia | 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 |
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