babesia

See also: Babesia and babésia

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Babesia, named after Victor Babeș.

Noun

babesia (usually uncountable, plural babesias or babesiae)

  1. (microbiology, epidemiology) Any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia that invades the erythrocytes of living mammals, notably including cattle and humans, causing any of several babesioses.

Derived terms

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, after Romanian bacteriologist Victor Babeș.

Noun

babesia (plural babesia-babesia)

  1. (microbiology, epidemiology) babesia: Any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia that invades the erythrocytes of living mammals, notably including cattle and humans, causing any of several babesioses

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