paratuberculosis

From para- +‎ tuberculosis.

paratuberculosis (uncountable)

1. A disease of ruminants caused by a subspecies of Mycobacterium avium; Johne's disease
2. (pathology) A disease similar to tuberculosis in which the living bacillus is not present

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.ra.tʊ.bɛrˈkʊ.ɫɔ.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.ra.t̪u.berˈkuː.lo.s̬is]

paratuberculosis (neuter paratuberculose); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (New Latin) That does not normally produce tubercules

• Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• Mycobacterium paratuberculosis