fever : Idioms & Phrases

• malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

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• noun hemorrhagic fever with neurological signs; caused by the Junin virus
  

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• noun leishmaniasis of the viscera
  Assam fever; visceral leishmaniasis; kala-azar.
  

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• malignant typhus fever.

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• noun severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
  

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• noun a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals
  Indian tick fever; Kenya fever; boutonneuse fever.
  

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• noun meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
  cerebrospinal meningitis; brain fever; epidemic meningitis.
  

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• (Med.), fever in which the brain is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever.

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• etc. See under Brain, Continued, etc.

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• noun an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
  dandy fever; dengue; breakbone fever.
  

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1. (Med.) See Dengue.

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• noun nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter
  

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• typhus fever.

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• noun an acute feverish disease in people and in dogs marked by gastroenteritis and mild jaundice
  

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• noun any of several disease of livestock marked by fever and edema of the respiratory tract
  

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• (Med.), a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

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• noun meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
  cerebrospinal meningitis; brain fever; epidemic meningitis.
  

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• noun serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon
  childbed fever.
  

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• fever and ague.

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• noun successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
  ague.
  

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• (Med.), a fever which presents no interruption in its course.

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• noun an infection common in Arab states caused by a bunyavirus; transmitted by a tick that thrives on sheep
  

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• noun an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
  dandy fever; dengue; breakbone fever.
  

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• . See Dengue.

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• noun a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
  deer fly fever; tularemia; tularaemia; yatobyo.
  

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• noun an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
  dandy fever; dengue; breakbone fever.
  

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• noun leishmaniasis of the viscera
  Assam fever; visceral leishmaniasis; kala-azar.
  

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• noun a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa
  Ebola; Ebola fever.
  

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• noun a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa
  Ebola; Ebola fever.
  

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• noun serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water
  typhoid; enteric fever.
  

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• (Med.), typhoid fever.

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• (Med.), one that is not dependent on another.

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• (Med.), typhus fever.

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• a form of fever recurring in paroxysms which are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin.

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• noun caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)
  herpes labialis; oral herpes; cold sore.
  

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• (Med.), a blister or vesicle often found about the mouth in febrile states; a variety of herpes.

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• (Bot.), the wild allspice or spice bush. See Spicewood.

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• noun a state of extreme excitement
  
  • the crowd was at fever pitch

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• . Same as Jame's powder.

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• (Bot.), an American herb of the genus Triosteum (T. perfoliatum); called also feverwort amd horse gentian.

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• a carious ulcer or necrosis. Miner.

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• noun any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever
  
• noun ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever
  Georgia bark; Pinckneya pubens; bitter-bark.
  
• noun tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish
  blue gum; Eucalyptus globulus.
  
• noun African tree supposed to mark healthful regions
  Acacia xanthophloea.
  

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• (Med.), a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms; a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever.

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• (Med.), a form of remittent fever with pronounced stomach symptoms.

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• noun infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache
  brucellosis; Malta fever; Rock fever; Gibraltar fever; Mediterranean fever.
  

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• noun an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing
  infectious mononucleosis; mono; kissing disease; mononucleosis.
  

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• noun greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush
  

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• a popular mania for gold hunting.

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• noun a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage
  VHF; hemorrhagic fever; haemorrhagic fever; viral haemorrhagic fever.
  

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• noun the form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States
  

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• noun a seasonal rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen
  pollinosis.
  

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• (Med.), nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspnoea, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer seasons. It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the pollen of certain plants. It is also called hay asthma, hay cold, and rose fever.

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• (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.

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• noun a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage
  VHF; hemorrhagic fever; haemorrhagic fever; viral haemorrhagic fever.
  

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• noun a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals
  Indian tick fever; Kenya fever; boutonneuse fever.
  

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• a variety of fever due to inflammation.

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• (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever.

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• (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; called also hospital fever, and ship fever.

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• noun severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions
  

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• noun a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals
  Indian tick fever; Kenya fever; boutonneuse fever.
  

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• noun an acute contagious viral disease of central western Africa; characterized by fever and inflammation and muscular pains and difficulty swallowing; can be used as a bioweapon
  

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• (Med.), pneumonia.

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• (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever.

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• noun infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache
  brucellosis; Malta fever; Rock fever; Gibraltar fever; Mediterranean fever.
  

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• noun a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness
  green monkey disease; Marburg disease.
  

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• noun a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals
  Indian tick fever; Kenya fever; boutonneuse fever.
  

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• noun infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache
  brucellosis; Malta fever; Rock fever; Gibraltar fever; Mediterranean fever.
  

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• noun epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
  sweating sickness.
  

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• . (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation . It is usually transitory. (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving.

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• noun caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks
  mountain fever; Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  

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• (Med.), a low form of fever characterized by great disturbance of the nervous system, as evinced by delirium, or stupor, disordered sensibility, etc.

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• malarial fever; so called because generated in marshy districts.

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• noun a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii
  phlebotomus; pappataci fever.
  

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• noun any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever
  paratyphoid.
  

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• noun an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds
  psittacosis; ornithosis.
  

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• a malignant fever, accompanied with livid spots on the skin.

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• (Med.), typhoid fever; enteric fever.

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• noun serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon
  childbed fever.
  

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• (Med.), typhus fever; so called from the decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and diseased textures of the body.

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• noun an acute disease resembling influenza
  

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• noun a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
  deer fly fever; tularemia; tularaemia; yatobyo.
  

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• noun either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions
  

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• noun a bacterium causing ratbite fever
  Spirillum minus.
  

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• noun marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months
  recurrent fever.
  

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• . (Med.) See Relapsing fever, under Relapsing.

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• noun marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months
  recurrent fever.
  

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• (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochæte) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.

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• (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.

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• noun a severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves
  

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• noun an infection common in Africa caused by a bunyavirus; transmitted by mosquitoes or by handling infected animals
  

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• noun infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache
  brucellosis; Malta fever; Rock fever; Gibraltar fever; Mediterranean fever.
  

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• noun caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks
  mountain fever; Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  

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• (Med.), rose cold.

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• noun a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii
  phlebotomus; pappataci fever.
  

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• noun an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash
  scarlatina.
  

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• (Med.), a contagious febrile disease characterized by inflammation of the fauces and a scarlet rash, appearing usually on the second day, and ending in desquamation about the sixth or seventh day.

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• (Med.), a fever coming on in a disease after the subsidence of the fever with which the disease began, as the fever which attends the outbreak of the eruption in smallpox.

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• (Med.), a form of typhus fever; called also putrid, jail, ∨ hospital fever.

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• noun a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)
  shipping pneumonia.
  

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• noun the form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East
  sodoku.
  

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• . (Med.) See Anthrax, n., 3.

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• noun a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people
  anthrax.
  

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• noun any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin
  

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• (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis.

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• (Med.), the condition of fever produced by sun stroke.

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• (Med.), pyæmia.

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• . (Med.) (a) Pyæmia. (b) Traumatic fever, or the fever accompanying inflammation.

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• noun an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever
  leptospirosis.
  

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• noun an infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick
  

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• noun sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat
  siriasis; insolation; sunstroke.
  

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• (Med.), the condition of fever produced by sunstroke. See Sunstroke.

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• noun caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks
  mountain fever; Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  

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• noun marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice
  

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• noun serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water
  typhoid; enteric fever.
  

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• a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See Peyer's glands. caused by the gram-negative bacillus, Salmonella typhosa (syn. Salmonella typhi), also called typhoid bacillus. The organism is often ingested by drinking contaminated water.

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• noun rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
  typhus.
  

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• noun infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache
  brucellosis; Malta fever; Rock fever; Gibraltar fever; Mediterranean fever.
  

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• (Med.), fever occurring as a consequence of operations upon the urethra.

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• noun an infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules
  desert rheumatism; coccidiomycosis; coccidioidomycosis.
  

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• noun a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage
  VHF; hemorrhagic fever; haemorrhagic fever; viral haemorrhagic fever.
  

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• noun a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage
  VHF; hemorrhagic fever; haemorrhagic fever; viral haemorrhagic fever.
  

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• (Med.), pneumonia. Colloq.

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• noun caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
  yellow jack; black vomit.
  

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• (Med.), a malignant, contagious, febrile disease of warm climates, attended with jaundice, producing a yellow color of the skin, and with the black vomit. See Black vomit, in the Vocabulary.

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• noun mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue
  Aedes aegypti.
  

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