Meanings
alternative tularaemia
- uncountablemedicineAn infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.
Tularemia, an infectious disease spread by ticks, kills 150 or so people a year in America.
2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 372Synonyms: deer fly fever, Ohara's fever, Pahvant Valley plague, rabbit fever
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Tulare County, California, where it was discovered, + -emia
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan tularèmia
- tularèmiainfectious disease
Chinese Mandarin 兔熱病 /兔热病
- 兔熱病 /兔热病 (tùrèbìng)infectious disease
Esperanto tularemio
- tularemioinfectious disease
Finnish tularemia, jänisrutto
- tularemiainfectious disease
- jänisruttoinfectious disease
French tularémie
- tularémieinfectious disease
German Tularämie
- Tularämieinfectious disease
Indonesian tularemia
- tularemiainfectious disease
Japanese 野兎病
- 野兎病 (yatobyō)infectious disease
Malay tularemia
- tularemiainfectious disease
Russian туляреми́я
- туляреми́я (tuljaremíja)infectious disease
Spanish tularemia
- tularemiainfectious disease
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Cite this entry
tularemia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tularemia
“tularemia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tularemia. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tularemia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tularemia.
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