RICKETTSIAL DISEASE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rickettsial disease mean? 

• RICKETTSIAL DISEASE (noun)
  The noun RICKETTSIAL DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria

  Familiarity information: RICKETTSIAL DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICKETTSIAL DISEASE (noun)

Meaning:

Infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis

Hypernyms ("rickettsial disease" is a kind of...):

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rickettsial disease"):

typhus; typhus fever (rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever)

spotted fever (any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin)

Q fever (an acute disease resembling influenza)

rickettsialpox (mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox)

trench fever (marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice)

scrub typhus; tsutsugamushi disease (transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia)