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melioidosis

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mel·i·oi·do·sis  (ml-oi-dss)
n.
A highly fatal infectious bacterial disease, primarily occurring in rodents in India and Southeast Asia, that is characterized in humans by systemic caseous nodules.
[New Latin mliodsis : Greek mlis, a disease of asses usually taken to be glanders + -oid + -osis.]
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