See Also: Tankan survey(finance)
rickettsia(dictionary)
rickettsia(encyclopedia)
Rickettsia(medicine)
Rickettsia sibirica(medicine)
rickettsia infections(medicine)
rickettsia rickettsii(medicine)
rickettsia typhi(medicine)
rickettsia vaccine(medicine)
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi(medicine)

Tankan survey (finance) and rickettsia (iou)


Tankan survey (finance)


An economic survey of Japanese business issued by the central Bank of Japan, which it then uses to formulate monetary policy. The report is released four times a year.





rickettsia (iou)



rickettsia noun. , -ias. E20.
[mod. Latin Rickettsia genus name, from H. T. Ricketts (1871-1910), US pathologist + -IA1.]
Medicine & Microbiology. Any of a group of very small rod-shaped or coccoid micro-organisms that are mostly intracellular parasites in vertebrates, including the causative agents of typhus and various Other febrile diseases in humans, and are freq. transmitted by mites, ticks, or lice.
rickettsial adjective of, pertaining to, or caused by rickettsiae M20.