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SPOTTED FEVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("spotted fever" is a kind of...):
rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spotted fever"):
mountain fever; Rocky Mountain spotted fever; tick fever (caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks)
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