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RELAPSING FEVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
recurrent fever; relapsing fever
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("relapsing fever" is a kind of...):
infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)
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