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RATBITE FEVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ratbite fever" is a kind of...):
infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ratbite fever"):
Haverhill fever (the form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States)
sodoku; spirillum fever (the form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East)
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