Definitions for tularemia

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tularemia tu·la·re·mi·a

Spelling: [too-luh-ree-mee-uh]

IPA: /ˌtu ləˈri mi ə/

Tularemia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 514 anagrams from letters in tularemia (aaeilmrtu).

Definitions for tularemia

noun

1. a plaguelike disease of rabbits, squirrels, etc., caused by a bacterium, Francisella tularensis, transmitted to humans by insects or ticks or by the handling of infected animals and causing fever, muscle pain, and symptoms associated with the point of entry into the body.

Origin of tularemia

1920-25, Americanism; Tulare, California county where first found + -emia

Examples for tularemia

Actually, many kinds of mammals are quite as likely to have tularemia as are rabbits.

No evidence of plague or of tularemia was reported after study of 494 small rodents obtained from 13 localities in the Park.

"tularemia, of course," he said, touching his lighter to the tip.

Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert?

Now that streptomycin is available, cases of tularemia in persons are easily cured.