cryptosporidiosis
- 1A disease of the intestines in mammals caused by Cryptosporidium, a single-celled parasite.
Several swimmers contracted cryptosporidiosis after the pool's filtration broke down.
Calves on the dairy farm developed cryptosporidiosis within their first weeks of life.
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Note
Medicine files it among the coccidial diseases, the family of infections caused by coccidian parasites. The name is built in plain view: the genus Cryptosporidium plus -osis, the suffix that turns an organism or process into a disease state. Keep the two apart in writing. The genus is capitalized and italicized, while the disease is lowercase. In informal speech the illness is often clipped to crypto.
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Origin
Formed from "cryptosporidium" combined with the suffix "-osis," which is used to name diseases and conditions.