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noun
An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tularaemia, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, yatobyo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: zoonosis, zoonotic disease
History
Tulare County, California, where it was discovered, + -emia
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
