ornithosis

ornithosis /or·ni·tho·sis/ (or″nĭ-tho´sis) psittacosis.

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A disease of birds caused by Chlamydia psittaci and contracted by humans through contact with infected birds.

Chlamydiosis, psittacosis, or ornithosis

Other names for parrot fever in humans.

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ornithosis.

See psittacosis.

ornithosis [or″nĭ-tho´sis]

a term that has been used in various ways, including: (1) to replace the term psittacosis (originally thought to affect only parrots); (2) to refer to Chlamydia psittaci infection in other birds, with the term psittacosis being reserved for infection in parrots and humans; and (3) to refer to Chlamydia psittaci infection in all birds, with the term psittacosis being reserved for human infection.

ornithosis

a systemic, contagious disease of nonpsittacine birds including domestic poultry, transmissible to humans, caused by Chlamydophila psittaci. The avian disease is called also chlamydiosis. In psittacine birds and humans the same disease is called psittacosis.

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Chlamydia Chlamydia psittaci chlamydiosis Chlamydophila parrot fever psittacosis tetracycline	According to the officials at Matsue Vogel Park, five female employees who were taking care of birds were hospitalized after complaining of symptoms consistent with pneumonia in December, and four of them were diagnosed with psittacosis, also known as parrot fever or ornithosis. Shimane bird park partly shut after 5 develop psittacosis by Japan Weekly Monitor I am aware that the distinction between Latinate words and words of Greek origin is not always clear-cut, for instance ornithic, which is often thought to be from Greek, although AHD posits a New Latin form ornithosis from Greek ornis. Collateral adjectives, Latinate vocabulary, and English morphology ... by Koshiishi, Tetsuya / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies	ornithic ornithine ornithine alpha-ketoglutarate ornithine carbamoyltransferase ornithine carbamoyltransferase deficiency ornithine cycle ornithine transcarbamoylase ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency ornithinemia ornithinemia, type I ornithinemia, type II ornithinuria Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale Ornithobilharzia Ornithobius mathisi Ornithocoris Ornithodoros Ornithodorus Ornithofilaria Ornithogalum Ornithoglossum viride Ornithonyssus ornithophobia Ornithopus sativus Ornithorhynchus anatinus ornithosis Ornithostrongylus oro- oroantral fistula Orobanche minor orodigitofacial orodigitofacial dysostosis orofacial orofacial abnormality orofacial pain orofaciodigital syndrome orogastric orogranulocyte orolingual oromandibular dystonia oronasal oropharyngeal oropharyngeal cancer oropharyngeal dysphagia oropharyngeal isthmus oropharyngolaryngitis oropharynx orosomucoid orotate orotic acid orotic aciduria	ornithopter Ornithopter (Dune) Ornithopter (Dune) Ornithopters Ornithopters Ornithopus Ornithopus perpusillus Ornithopus sativus Ornithorhynchid Ornithorhynchid Ornithorhynchidae Ornithorhynchidae Ornithorhynchus Ornithorhynchus Ornithorhynchus Ornithorhynchus anatinus Ornithorhynchus anatinus Ornithorhynchus anatinus Ornithorhyncus Ornithorhyncus Ornithorhyncus Ornithorhyncus anatinus Ornithorhyncus anatinus Ornithorhyncus anatinus Ornithosaur Ornithosaur Ornithosauria Ornithosauria Ornithoscelida Ornithoscopy ornithosis Ornithostrongylus Ornithostrongylus quadriradiatus Ornithosuchus Ornithotarsus Ornithotomical Ornithotomist Ornithotomy Ornithyl Amphotericin B Methyl Ester Ornitopter Ornitopter ORNK ORNL ORNL-CF ORNL-PCA ORNLFCU ORNRL ORNS Ornstein Uhlenbeck Process Ornstein, Leo Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Models for Comparative Hypotheses Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process ORNT ORNZ Oro Oro

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Chlamydia
Chlamydia psittaci
chlamydiosis
Chlamydophila
parrot fever
psittacosis
tetracycline

According to the officials at Matsue Vogel Park, five female employees who were taking care of birds were hospitalized after complaining of symptoms consistent with pneumonia in December, and four of them were diagnosed with psittacosis, also known as parrot fever or ornithosis.

Shimane bird park partly shut after 5 develop psittacosis by Japan Weekly Monitor

I am aware that the distinction between Latinate words and words of Greek origin is not always clear-cut, for instance ornithic, which is often thought to be from Greek, although AHD posits a New Latin form ornithosis from Greek ornis.

Collateral adjectives, Latinate vocabulary, and English morphology ... by Koshiishi, Tetsuya / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies

ornithic

ornithine

ornithine alpha-ketoglutarate

ornithine carbamoyltransferase

ornithine carbamoyltransferase deficiency

ornithine cycle

ornithine transcarbamoylase

ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency

ornithinemia

ornithinemia, type I

ornithinemia, type II