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columnaris|kɒləmˈnɑːrɪs|
[mod.L. (see def.): cf. columnar a.]
A bacterial disease of freshwater fish caused by Chondrococcus columnaris, which forms short column-shaped masses on the edges of the infected tissues or scales.
1945Jrnl. Bacteriology XLIX. 114 The characteristic lesions of this and other kinds of fishes in natural and induced ‘columnaris infections’ were readily produced. 1960Progr. Fish-Culturist XXII. 43 (title) Outbreaks of columnaris in Center Hill and Old Hickory Reservoirs, Tennessee. 1966Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 11 May 4/6 Scotland's fresh salmon industry is facing the threat of a fish disease called columnaris—a sort of fishy myxomatosis. 1966Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 17/5 Some fish in West Sussex rivers are believed to have died from columnaris, which has killed thousands of coarse fish in the Midlands. |