spotted disease
41Rocky Mountain spotted fever — ☆ Rocky Mountain spotted fever n. [from being first discovered in the ROCKY MOUNTAINS] an acute infectious disease caused by a rickettsia (Rickettsia rickettsii), transmitted to human beings by certain ticks (esp. genus Dermacentor), and… …
42Milium (disease) — Milia rediects here. For other uses, see disambiguation Milia Classification and external resources Milia on the eyelid of an adult male ICD 10 L72.8 (ILDS L72.830) …
43Rocky Mountain spotted fever — a disease of rodents and other small mammals in the USA caused by the microorganism Rickettsia rickettsii and transmitted to humans by ticks. Symptoms include fever, muscle pains, and a profuse reddish rash like that of measles. If untreated the… …
44blue disease — n. Rocky Mountain spotted fever, severe and infectious disease (highly fatal) caused by Rickettsia and is generally spread by the bite of an infected ixodid tick (its symptoms are: frontal and occipital headache, extreme lumbar pain, general… …
45Rocky Mountain spotted fever — n. blue disease, severe and infectious disease (highly fatal) caused by Rickettsia and is generally spread by the bite of an infected ixodid tick (its symptoms are: frontal and occipital headache, extreme lumbar pain, general discomfort,… …
46mosaic disease — noun see mosaic I, 5b * * * mosaic disease, any one of various virus diseases of tobacco and other plants in which the leaves become spotted or mottled …
47Rocky Mountain spotted fever — noun Date: 1905 an acute disease that is characterized by chills, fever, prostration, pains in muscles and joints, and a red to purple eruption and that is caused by a rickettsia (Rickettsia rickettsii) usually transmitted by an ixodid tick and… …
48Rocky Mountain spotted fever — A disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii …
49Rocky Mountain spotted fever — Acute infectious tick borne rickettsial disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii …
50Conor and Bruch disease — African tick typhus, one of the tick borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere similar to Rocky Mountain spotted fever but less severe. Characteristic features include fever, a small ulcer (tache noire) at the site of the tick bite,… …
