tu|la|re|mi|a

tu|la|re|mi|a or tu|la|rae|mi|a «_TOO luh REE mee uh», noun.

an infectious disease of wild rabbits, rodents, and of certain birds, caused by a bacterium and sometimes transmitted to people by insect and tick bites or by the handling of infected animals, causing an intermittent fever that lasts several weeks; rabbit fever.

╂[< New Latin tularemia < Tulare, a county in California + -emia -emia]