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noun
An infection by Chlamydia bacteria, caught from infected birds, and characterised by fever, pneumonia and headaches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: parrot fever, ornithosis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: atypical pneumonia, primary atypical pneumonia, mycoplasmal pneumonia
noun
infectious disease of birds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: parrot disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: animal disease
History
From Latin psittacus (“parrot”) + -osis. By surface analysis, psittac- + -osis.
Across languages
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
