ratbite fever bacterium
Spirillum minus | a bacterium causing ratbite fever |
yellow-fever mosquito
Aedes aegypti | mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue |
| fever | intense nervous anticipation, in a fever of resentment |
| buck fever | nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter |
| gold fever | greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush |
| fever tree Acacia xanthophloea | African tree supposed to mark healthful regions |
blue gum
fever tree Eucalyptus globulus | tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil, young leaves are bluish |
fever tree Georgia bark
bitter-bark
Pinckneya pubens | 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 |
| fever tree | any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever |
| fever pitch | a state of extreme excitement, the crowd was at fever pitch |
| Argentine hemorrhagic fever | hemorrhagic fever with neurological signs, caused by the Junin virus |
| blackwater fever | severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine |
| jungle fever | severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions |
Marseilles fever
Kenya fever
Indian tick fever
boutonneuse fever | 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 |
scarlet fever
scarlatina | an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash |
brucellosis undulant fever
Malta fever
Gibraltar fever
Rock fever
Mediterranean fever | infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products, characterized by fever and headache |
dengue
dengue fever
dandy fever
breakbone fever | an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints |
oral herpes
herpes labialis
cold sore
fever blister | caused by herpes simplex virus type (HSV-) |
infectious mononucleosis
mononucleosis
mono
glandular fever
kissing disease | 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 |
Ebola hemorrhagic fever
Ebola fever
Ebola | 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 |
| Lassa fever | 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 |
cerebrospinal meningitis
epidemic meningitis
brain fever
cerebrospinal fever | meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal |
paratyphoid
paratyphoid fever | any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever |
| ratbite fever | 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 |
typhus
typhus fever | rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever |
| spotted fever | any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
mountain fever
tick fever | caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks |
| Q fever | an acute disease resembling influenza |
| trench fever | marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice |
relapsing fever
recurrent fever | 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 |
| rheumatic fever | a severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves |
sweating sickness
miliary fever | epidemic in the th and th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality |
typhoid
typhoid fever
enteric fever | serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water |
yellow jack
yellow fever
black vomit | caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito |
coccidioidomycosis
coccidiomycosis
valley fever
desert rheumatism | an infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules |
psittacosis parrot fever
ornithosis | an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds |
hemorrhagic fever
haemorrhagic fever
viral hemorrhagic fever
viral haemorrhagic fever
VHF | 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 |
| Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever | an infection common in Arab states caused by a bunyavirus, transmitted by a tick that thrives on sheep |
| Rift Valley fever | an infection common in Africa caused by a bunyavirus, transmitted by mosquitoes or by handling infected animals |
visceral leishmaniasis
kala-azar
Assam fever
dumdum fever | leishmaniasis of the viscera |
puerperal fever
childbed fever | serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions), formerly widespread but now uncommon |
| Haverhill fever | the form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States |
sunstroke
insolation
thermic fever
siriasis | sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat |
sandfly fever
pappataci fever
phlebotomus | a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii |
anthrax
splenic fever | a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep), it can be transmitted to people |
| catarrhal fever | any of several disease of livestock marked by fever and edema of the respiratory tract |
Marburg disease
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
green monkey disease | a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus, when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness |
shipping fever
shipping pneumonia | 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) |
swamp fever
leptospirosis | an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals, characterized by jaundice and fever |
| canicola fever | an acute feverish disease in people and in dogs marked by gastroenteritis and mild jaundice |