myxomatosis

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A usually fatal viral disease of rabbits, causing skin tumors.

   “In addition to new diseases, Quammen touches on many of the examples often included in standard disease ecology or epidemiology courses—for example, myxomatosis in nonnative rabbits of Australia, and mutation rates in RNA versus DNA viruses.”

2. isim A condition characterized by the growth of many myxomata (tumors of primitive connective tissue).