myxomatosis
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Illness & disabilitymyxomatosismyx‧o‧ma‧to‧sis /ˌmɪksəməˈtəʊsɪs $ -ˈtoʊ-/ noun [uncountable] MIHBAa disease that kills rabbitsExamples from the Corpusmyxomatosis• Even through the years before myxomatosis rabbits were vulnerable to disease simply because there were so very many of them.• The effect of myxomatosis spread far beyond the rabbit.