ˌtüləˈrēmēə noun
( -s )
Etymology: New Latin, from Tulare county, Calif. where it was first discovered + New Latin -emia
: an infectious disease of rodents, man, and some domestic animals caused by a bacterium ( Pasteurella tularensis ) that is transmitted by the bites of insects or is occasionally acquired by man through handling infected animals and in man marked by headache, chills, fever, and other constitutional symptoms of toxemia
• tu·la·re·mic | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|rēmik adjective