PSITTACOSIS


Meaning of PSITTACOSIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌsi-tə-ˈkō-səs ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin psittacus

Date: 1897

: an infectious disease of birds caused by a bacterium ( Chlamydia psittaci ), marked by diarrhea and wasting, and transmissible to humans in whom it occurs as a flu-like illness often accompanied by pneumonia — called also ornithosis, parrot fever

• psit·ta·co·tic -ˈkä-tik, -ˈkō- adjective

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