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Cowdria

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. Cowdria (noun)
  2. Maddox rod (noun)
  3. Weil-Felix reaction (noun)

Cow·dria

noun \ˈkau̇-drē-ə\

Definition of COWDRIA

: a genus of small pleomorphic intracellular rickettsial bacteria known chiefly from ticks but including the causative organism (C. ruminantium) of heartwater of ruminants

Biographical Note for COWDRIA

Cow·dry \ˈkau̇-drē\ , Edmund Vincent (1888–1975), American anatomist. Cowdry's areas of research included the pathology of virus diseases, rickettsial diseases, malaria, yellow fever, and east coast fever. In 1924 he discovered the causative organism (Cowdria ruminantium) of heartwater.