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Psittacosis

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Noun

1. parrot disease, psittacosis

infectious disease of birds

2. ornithosis, parrot fever, psittacosis

an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Psittacosis

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noun
a disease of parrots, caused by the obligate intracellular parasite Chlamydia psittaci, that can be transmitted to man, in whom it produces inflammation of the lungs and pneumonia
. Also called: parrot fever, ornithosis

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Psittacosis

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noun
an acute or chronic disease of birds, esp. birds of the parrot order, caused by a bacterium (Chlamydia psittaci): often transmitted to humans, in whom it is characterized by fever and pneumonia

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Psittacosis

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n.
An infectious disease of parrots and related birds caused by the bacterium Chlamydia psittaci, that is communicable to humans, in whom it produces high fever, severe headache, and symptoms similar to pneumonia. Also called ornithosis, parrot fever.

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