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myxomatosis Definition

myxo·ma·to·sis (mik′sə mə tōsis)

noun

  1. the presence of many myxomas
  2. an infectious viral disease in rabbits, transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by tumorous growths resembling myxomas

Etymology: see myxoma & -osis

myxomatosis Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • catch: If a vaccinated rabbit does catch myxomatosis the disease is usually mild and confined to the skin.
  • cause: The virus causing myxomatosis is transmitted between infected and healthy rabbits by insects, particularly rabbit fleas, but also by flies.
  • transmit: As mosquitoes were already known to mechanically transmit myxomatosis, the team used this disease as a model system.
  • contract: Vaccination does not guarantee that a rabbit will not contract myxomatosis, there is still a small risk.
  • include: The standard rabbit vaccination, which includes myxomatosis, costs about GBP 25 [ USD 48 ] .
  • remember: However, do remember that Myxomatosis can affect animals during any month of the year.

Noun used with modifier

  • disease: The disease myxomatosis in rabbits is caused by a virus.
  • virus: In the early 1950s the virus myxomatosis occurred in Britain.

Adjective modifier

  • most: Incidentally, most Myxomatosis in Britain occurs in the late summer, autumn and early winter months.

Modifies a noun

  • virus: This vaccine utilizes a virus called the shope fibroma virus which is closely related to the myxomatosis virus but does not cause disease.
  • vaccine: You may have heard of it because myxomatosis vaccine is made from a special strain of this virus.
  • vaccination: At 6 weeks the Babies can have their Myxomatosis Vaccination.
  • outbreak: Posted 15 December 2004 Myxomatosis outbreak in Huddersfield could see thousands die!

Preposition: in

  • 1950s: Their numbers have increased greatly over the last two decades following a decline of rabbits due to myxomatosis in the 1950s.
  • rabbit: The disease myxomatosis in rabbits is caused by a virus.

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