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BORNHOLM DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
Synonyms:
Bornholm disease; diaphragmatic pleurisy; epidemic myalgia; epidemic pleurodynia; myosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Bornholm disease" is a kind of...):
epidemic disease (any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people)
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