myxomatosis

From myxoma.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪksəməˈtəʊsɪs/

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myxomatosis (uncountable)

1. A usually fatal viral disease of rabbits, causing skin tumors.
   • 2023 April 24, Stephen Burgen, “Catalonia’s farmers face threat of drought … and a plague of hungry rabbits”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     “A lot of factors have contributed to the rabbit population explosion: there was the pandemic, when no one could hunt for two years; they’ve become immune to myxomatosis; and the female can produce seven or eight offspring every two months,” Foix says.

2. (broadly) A condition characterized by the growth of many myxomata (tumors of primitive connective tissue).

• myxo, mixi, myxy