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TULARAEMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
Synonyms:
deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("tularaemia" is a kind of...):
zoonosis; zoonotic disease (an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans)
Meronyms (parts of "tularaemia"):
chancre (a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis))
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