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Definition: Myxomatosis |
MyxomatosisNoun1. A viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbits. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Myxomatosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Myxomatosis" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
At first, the disease is visible by lumps and puffyness around the head and genitals. This may progress to acute conjunctivitis and possibly blindness. The rabbit becomes listless, loses appetite, and develops a fever. In typical cases where the rabbit has no resistance, death takes an average of 13 days.
After its discovery in imported rabbits in Uruguay, a relatively harmless strain spread quickly throughout the wild population in South America. In Australia, the virus was first field-tested for population control in 1938. A full-scale release was performed in 1950. It was devastatingly effective, reducing the estimated rabbit population from 600 million to 100 million in two years. However, the rabbits remaining alive were those least affected by the disease. Genetic resistance to myxomatosis was observed soon after the first release and most rabbits acquired partial immunity in the first two decades. Resistance has been increasing slowly since the 1970s, and the disease now only kills about 50% of infected rabbits. In an attempt to increase that number, a second virus (rabbit calicivirus) was introduced into the rabbit population in 1996.
A vaccine is available for pet rabbits. Myxomatosis is spread by fleas and mosquitos, so attempt to keep pet rabbits away from these pests.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Myxomatosis."
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Beginning with "myxomatosis": myxomatosis-infected. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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myxomatosis | 89 |
lyrics myxomatosis | 6 |
myxomatosis radiohead | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "myxomatosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | myxomatose (myxomatosis of rabbits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | myxomatose (myxomatosis of rabbits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | miksomatozo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kanien limakasvaintauti (myxomatosis of rabbits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | myxomatose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Myxomatose der Kaninchen (myxomatosis of rabbits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μυξωμάτωση των κουνελιών (myxomatosis of rabbits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kötőszövet-rák. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mixomatosi dei conigli (myxomatosis of rabbits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yxomatosismay mixomatose (myxomatosis of rabbits), mixoma de Sanarelli (myxomatosis of rabbits), mixoma contagioso dos coelhos (myxomatosis of rabbits). (various references) mixomatosis. (various references) kaninpest. (various references) โรคติ"เชื้อของกระต่าย. (various references) міксоматоз. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-m-o-o-s-s-t-x-y" | |
-3 letters: atomisms, myosotis. | |
-4 letters: atomism, mimosas, myxomas, simooms. | |
-5 letters: axioms, maists, mastix, maxims, miasms, mimosa, missay, myasis, myomas, myosis, mysost, myxoma, ostomy, simoom, sixmos, stomas, xystoi, xystos. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01111001 01111000 01101111 01101101 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M y x o m a t o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0079 0078 006F 006D 0061 0074 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4791908179678681857585 |
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