leptospirosis
English
editEtymology
editFrom Leptospira + -osis.
Noun
editleptospirosis (countable and uncountable, plural leptospiroses)
- An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
Synonyms
edit- (disease): Weil’s disease, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, rat catcher's yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, pretibial fever
Translations
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Further reading
edit- Leptospira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Leptospira (Noguchi) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Spanish
editNoun
editleptospirosis f (plural leptospirosis)
Further reading
edit- “leptospirosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014