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melioidosises

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mel⋅i⋅oi⋅do⋅sis

  [mel-ee-oi-doh-sis]
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–noun Pathology.
a contagious pulmonary disease of rodents that is caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas pseudomallei and is frequently transmitted to humans in moist climates of southeastern Asia.
Origin:
1920–25; < Gk mēlí(s) glanders, or a similar distemper affecting asses + -oid + -osis
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Main Entry: mel·i·oi·do·sis
Pronunciation: "mel-E-"oi-'dO-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural mel·i·oi·do·ses /-"sEz/
: a highly fatal bacterial disease closely related to glanders that occurs primarily in rodents of southeastern Asiabut is readily transmitted to other mammals including humans by the rat flea or under certain conditions by dissemination in air of the causative bacterium of the genus Pseudomonas (P.pseudomallei)
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melioidosis mel·i·oi·do·sis (měl'ē-oi-dō'sĭs)
n.
An infectious disease, primarily affecting rodents in India and Southeast Asia but also communicable to humans, that is caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas pseudomallei; it produces a characteristic caseous nodule that breaks down into an abscess.

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