Associations to the word «Rickettsia»
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Wiktionary
RICKETTSIA, noun. Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice; they cause typhus and other diseases
RICKETTSIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Rickettsiaceae — the rickettsia bacteria.
Dictionary definition
RICKETTSIA, noun. 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.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.