babesia

See also: Babesia and babésia

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Babesia, named after Victor Babeș.

Noun

babesia (usually uncountable, plural babesias or babesiae)

1. (microbiology, epidemiology) Any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia that invades the erythrocytes of living mammals, notably including cattle and humans, causing any of several babesioses.

Derived terms

• babesial

 

Translations

any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴倍蟲 / 巴倍虫 (zh) (Bābèi chóng), 巴倍斯蟲 / 巴倍斯虫 (Bābèisī chóng)

• Esperanto: babezio
• Georgian: ბაბეზია (babezia)
• Indonesian: babesia
• Portuguese: babésia f
• Russian: бабе́зия (ru) f (babézija)

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, after Romanian bacteriologist Victor Babeș.

Noun

babesia (uncountable)

1. (microbiology, epidemiology) babesia: Any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia that invades the erythrocytes of living mammals, notably including cattle and humans, causing any of several babesioses.

Further reading

• “babesia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.