rickettsia
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.animal)
| member meronym | : | family rickettsiaceae, rickettsiaceae, |
| definition | : | microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | rickettsial, |
| definition | : | relating to or caused by rickettsias (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | rickettsial, |
| definition | : | relating to or caused by rickettsias (adj.pert) |
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