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rickettsia

Noun

rick=ett=si=a

WORDNET DICTIONARY

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 member of family rickettsiaceae, rickettsiaceae

Derived form adjective rickettsial₁

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