Definitions for rickettsias
rickettsias
rick·ett·si·a
Spelling: [ri-ket-see-uh]
IPA: /rɪˈkɛt si ə/
Rickettsias is a 11 letter English word.
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You can make 801 anagrams from letters in rickettsias (aceiikrsstt).
Definitions for rickettsias
noun
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any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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any rickettsia or rickettsialike microorganism of the orders Rickettsiales and Chlamydiales.
Origin of rickettsias
1915-20; New Latin, after Howard T. Ricketts (1871-1910), U.S. pathologist; see -ia