coccidiosis

American  

[kok-sid-ee-oh-sis] / kɒkˌsɪd iˈoʊ sɪs /

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. any of a series of specific infectious diseases caused by epithelial protozoan parasites, which may affect the intestines of birds, domestic animals, or dogs.

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coccidiosis British  

/ kɒkˌsɪdɪˈəʊsɪs /

noun

1. any disease of domestic and other animals caused by introcellular parasitic protozoa of the order Coccidia. One species, Isospora hominis, can infect humans

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Etymology

Origin of coccidiosis

1890–95; < New Latin Coccidi ( a ) ( see coccidium) + -osis

Example Sentences

Then animal tests showed that sulfaquinoxa-line is wonderful for protecting chickens against coccidiosis, a deadly parasitic disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

Professor Bancroft believed that the chemical also kept rabbits from contracting coccidiosis and chickens from contracting infectious leukemia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sulfanilamide cures fowl pneumonia and several eye infections, reports D. E. Lothamer of Louisville, Ohio; and sulfaguanidine cures intestinal coccidiosis, another common henyard plague, reports Professor Jerry R. Beach of the University of California.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the dead ducks were forwarded to the Biological Survey and were turned over for examination to the Bureau of Animal Industry, by the experts of which the disease was diagnosed as intestinal coccidiosis.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

Thus are occasioned grave attacks of coccidiosis, characterized by severe enteritis and diarrhoea, which may end fatally.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various