Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ornithosis

1 sense of ornithosis

Sense 1
psittacosis, parrot fever, ornithosis -- (an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds)
       => atypical pneumonia, primary atypical pneumonia, mycoplasmal pneumonia -- (an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults)