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

1 sense of rickettsialpox

Sense 1
rickettsialpox -- (mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox)
       => rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis -- (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)