an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
Also called: undulant fever
Word origin
C20: from New Latin Brucella, named after Sir David Bruce (1855–1931), Australian bacteriologist and physician
brucellosis in American English
(ˌbrusəˈloʊsɪs)
noun
a disease, esp. in humans and cattle, caused by bacteria (genus Brucella)
see also undulant fever
Word origin
< ModL, after Sir David Bruce (1855-1931), Scot physician + -osis