myxomatosis

myxomatosis
/mik'seuh meuh toh"sis/, n.
1. Pathol.
a. a condition characterized by the presence of many myxomas.
b. myxomatous degeneration.
2. Vet. Pathol. a highly infectious viral disease of rabbits, artificially introduced into Great Britain and Australia to reduce the rabbit population.
[1925-30; < NL myxomat- (s. of myxoma; see MYX-, -OMA) + -OSIS]

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▪ animal pathology
formally  infectious myxomatosis , or  myxomatosis cuniculi 

      a highly fatal infectious viral disease of rabbits. It is characterized by fever, swelling of the mucous membranes, and the presence of nodular skin tumours. The disease exists naturally in populations of certain South American rabbits of the genus Sylvilagus and has been introduced into western Europe and Australia as a means of rabbit population control.

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