RICKETTSIALPOX

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("rickettsialpox" is a kind of...):

rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)

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