rickettsiosis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsrickettsial disease

   Broaderinfectious disease

   Narrowertyphusspotted feverQ feverrickettsialpoxtrench fevertsutsugamushi disease

Other forms of rickettsiosis

plural

rickettsiosises·

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 rickettsiosis

What does rickettsiosis mean?

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

How many syllables are in rickettsiosis?

rickettsiosis has 5 syllables: ric-kett-si-o-sis. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for rickettsiosis?

Close synonyms include rickettsial disease. 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 rickettsiosis a common word?

rickettsiosis 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.