aspergillosis

1. 1.

   severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys

   Synonymsbrooder pneumonia

   Broaderanimal disease
2. 2.

   an opportunistic infection by a fungus of the genus Aspergillus; characterized by inflammation and lesions of the ear and other organs

   Broaderopportunistic infection
3. 3.

   disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs

   Broaderdisease

Other forms of aspergillosis

plural

aspergilloses

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aspergillosis

What does aspergillosis mean?

aspergillosis means "severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aspergillosis?

aspergillosis has 5 syllables: a-sper-gil-lo-sis. The stress falls on "gil".

What is another word for aspergillosis?

Close synonyms include brooder pneumonia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aspergillosis a common word?

aspergillosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.