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RICKETTSIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rickettsial mean?
• RICKETTSIAL (adjective)
The adjective RICKETTSIAL has 1 sense:
1. relating to or caused by rickettsias
Familiarity information: RICKETTSIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or caused by rickettsias
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
rickettsia (any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings)
Derivation:
rickettsia (any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings)
Context examples
This tetracycline is active against a wide range of gram-positive and gram-negative organisms, spirochetes, rickettsial species, certain protozoa and Mycoplasma and Chlamydia organisms.
(Chlortetracycline Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
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