[ bəˌbi:zɪ'əʊsɪs ]
(also babesiasis ˌbα:bɪ'zʌɪəsɪs )
■ noun a protozoal disease of livestock transmitted by tick bites, affecting the red blood cells and causing red or blackish urine.
Origin
early 20th cent.: from mod. L. Babesia (a genus of protozoans), from the name of the Romanian bacteriologist Victor Babès .