leptospirosis

From Leptospira +‎ -osis.

leptospirosis (countable and uncountable, plural leptospiroses)

1. An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.

• (disease): Weil’s disease, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, rat catcher's yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, pretibial fever

• Leptospira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Leptospira (Noguchi) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• IPA^(key): /lebtospiˈɾosis/ [leβ̞.t̪os.piˈɾo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: lep‧tos‧pi‧ro‧sis

leptospirosis f (plural leptospirosis)

1. leptospirosis

• “leptospirosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024