rickettsiosis (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *rickettsiosis*:
NOUN	state	rickettsiosis, rickettsial disease	infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria

English > *rickettsiosis*: 1 sense > noun 1, state
Meaning	infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria.
Synonym	rickettsial disease
Narrower	Q fever	An acute disease resembling influenza
	rickettsialpox	mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents
	spotted fever	Any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin
	trench fever	marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice
	tsutsugamushi disease, scrub typhus	transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia
	typhus, typhus fever	rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
Broader	infectious disease	A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
Spanish	rickettsiosis
Catalan	rickettsiosi

HyperDic: rickettsiosis