单词 | rickettsial |
释义 | rickettsia /ri-ketˈsi-ə/noun (pl rickettˈsiae /-ē/ or rickettˈsias)A member of the Rickettsia genus of micro-organisms found in lice and ticks and, when transferred to humans by a bite, causing typhus and other serious diseases, or of the family Rickettsiaˈceae /-āˈsi-ē/, order Rickettsiaˈles /-āˈlēz/, to which it belongs (also Rickettsia body) ORIGIN: Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871–1910), US pathologist rickettˈsial adjective |
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