tsutsugamushi disease
1tsutsugamushi disease — [tso͞o΄tso͞o gə mo͞o′shē] n. [Jpn < tsutsuga, danger, disease, harm + mushi, insect] SCRUB TYPHUS …
2Tsutsugamushi disease — A mite borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with fever, headache, a raised (macular) rash, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and a dark crusted ulcer (called an eschar or tache noire) at… …
3tsutsugamushi disease — [ˌtsu:tsu:gə mʊʃi] noun another term for scrub typhus. Origin early 20th cent.: tsutsugamushi, from the Japanese name of the mite which transmits the disease …
4tsutsugamushi disease — noun Etymology: Japanese tsutsugamushi scrub typhus mite, from tsutsuga sickness + mushi insect Date: 1906 scrub typhus …
5tsutsugamushi disease — (Medicine) scrub typhus, infectious bacterial disease transmitted by mites (characterized by a sore where the bite occurred, fever, skin rash, and headaches) …
6tsutsugamushi disease — noun transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia • Syn: ↑scrub typhus • Hypernyms: ↑rickettsial disease, ↑rickettsiosis …
7tsutsugamushi disease — /tsooh tseuh geuh mooh shee, tsooh /, Pathol. See scrub typhus. [ < Japn tsutsuga mushi typhus mite, equiv. to tsutsuga hindrance, ailment (earlier tutu(n)ga, deriv. of tutumi to hinder, with ka place) + mushi vermin] * * * …
8tsutsugamushi disease — see scrub typhus …
9Тиф Кустарниковый (Scrub Typhus), Болезнь Цуцугамуши (Tsutsugamushi Disease) — широко распространенное в северо восточной части Азии заболевание, вызываемое паразитическим микроорганизмом вида Rickettsia tsutsugamushi; передается человеку через укусы клещей. Переносчиками данного заболевания являются личинки клещей рода… …
10tsutsugamushi mite — noun : any of several mites of the genus Trombicula that are vectors of the rickettsia causing tsutsugamushi disease …