myxomatosis

English

Etymology

From myxoma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪksəməˈtəʊsɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

myxomatosis (uncountable)

1. A usually fatal viral disease of rabbits, causing skin tumors.
   • 2023 April 24, Stephen Burgen, “Catalonia’s farmers face threat of drought … and a plague of hungry rabbits”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “A lot of factors have contributed to the rabbit population explosion: there was the pandemic, when no one could hunt for two years; they’ve become immune to myxomatosis; and the female can produce seven or eight offspring every two months,” Foix says.

2. (broadly) A condition characterized by the growth of many myxomata (tumors of primitive connective tissue).

Synonyms

• myxo, mixi, myxy

Derived terms

• myxomatotic

 

Translations

rabbit disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黏液瘤病 (niányèliúbìng), 粘液瘤病 (niányè liú bìng)

• Czech: myxomatóza f
• Dutch: myxomatose (nl) f
• Finnish: myksomatoosi (fi)
• French: myxomatose (fr) f
• Galician: mixomatose (gl) f
• German: Myxomatose (de) f
• Greek: μυξωμάτωση (el) f (myxomátosi)
• Italian: mixomatosi f
• Polish: miksomatoza f
• Portuguese: mixomatose f
• Russian: миксомато́з m (miksomatóz)
• Serbo-Croatian: миксоматоза f (miksomatoza)
• Spanish: mixomatosis (es) f