hexamitiasisn.
/hɛksəmɪˈtʌɪəsɪs/ Medicine.
A disease caused by protozoa of the genus Hexamita; esp. an infectious catarrhal enteritis in turkeys often fatal to poults and caused by H. meleagridis.
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1941 Jrnl. Parasitol. 27 186 One essential difference in the pathology of hexamitiasis of pigeons [from that of turkeys] is the consistent catarrhal inflammation with a heavy mucous deposit in the rectum of young pigeons.
1966 T. Dalling Internat. Encycl. Vet. Med. III. 1432 In Great Britain, hexamitiasis appears to have been confined to a number of localized outbreaks and..the disease at present is not of great economic importance.
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