ANAPLASMOSIS

[an.a.plas.mo.sis] n, pl -mo.ses [NL, fr. Anaplasma, genus name, fr. ana- + plasma (protoplasm)] (1920): a tick-borne disease of cattle and sheep caused by a bacterium (Anaplasma marginale) and characterized esp. by anemia without blood-tinged urine and by jaundice