rickettsial disease

Questions about rickettsial disease

What does rickettsial disease mean?

rickettsial disease means "infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria".

What is another word for rickettsial disease?

Close synonyms include rickettsiosis. 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 rickettsial disease a common word?

rickettsial disease 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.