a prolonged, debilitating fever causing wasting of the body; consumption; cf. hectic, adj. n.

A kind of fever.

A hectic fever.

= hectic, n. 1a.

a disease characterized by high fever and the presence of vesicles or pustules in the mouth.

a fever attended with delirium, ? brain-fever.

Any of various infectious diseases accompanied by a dark red or purplish, often petechial, rash.

Medicine. Any of various diseases characterized by inflammation of the throat, tonsils, or mouth, esp. when accompanied by the formation of a…

a fever that causes wasting.

Medicine. A remittent fever. Also: a case of this (rare). Now historical or archaic.

Originally: an epidemic disease characterized by fever and catarrh (probably influenza). In later use also: any slight or brief fever (also figurative…

Originally: any fever accompanied by pain in the joints or muscles. In later use: spec. a disorder of probable immunological origin occurring in…

Fever occurring in a woman shortly after childbirth (formerly supposed to be caused by the beginning of lactation); an instance of this.

Having a fixed station or place. Medicine. Of a disease: tending to recur in one locality over a period of time; endemic; esp. in stationary fever…

A slight fever, of short duration.

= milk fever, n. 1.

(see quots.).

a name given to fevers of an epidemical character occurring in camps, chiefly typhus.

a fever or febrile condition caused by or attributed to exposure to the sun; spec. (a) sunstroke; †(b) U.S. the viral disease dengue (obsolete).

fever that recurs at intervals; an instance of this; spec. = relapsing fever n. at relapsing, adj. compounds.

†(a) erysipelas (cf. sense A. 16a); an instance of this (obsolete); (b) U.S. seasonal allergic rhinitis; hay fever; (now rare).

fever accompanying teething.

(in the terminology of E. Darwin) a type of fever attributed to increased exertion of the senses.

jungle-fever.

= phlegmasia alba dolens, n.; cf. milk leg n. at milk, n.1 adj.compounds 3a.

a kind of remittent fever prevalent in the hill country of India.

Used in combination, as Walcheren ague, Walcheren fever.

A febrile illness of humans caused by the bacterium Brucella melitensis, once very common in parts of the Mediterranean, and frequently…

A malignant fever. Obsolete.

a fever that recurs; spec. an infectious disease characterized by a number of episodes of fever lasting for several days and separated by afebrile…

seasonal allergic rhinitis; hay fever; cf. rose catarrh n., rose fever n. (b).

dengue fever (see dengue, n.).

= rose cold n.

Used in combination, as Walcheren ague, Walcheren fever.

A malarial or typhoid fever contracted in a mountain region.

= byssinosis, n.

the febrile illness of humans caused by Brucella melitensis, once very common in Malta and other parts of the Mediterranean; brucellosis. Cf. Med…

(see quot.).

A severe, febrile haemolytic anaemia caused by acute infection with Bartonella bacilliformis, a bacterium endemic to Peru and Ecuador which is…

a high or excessive degree of fever.

(a) typhus; (b) relapsing fever.

†(a) a febrile disease epidemic among humans in South Africa (not identified) (obsolete rare). (b) Veterinary Medicine = theileriasis, n.

relapsing fever.

A febrile disease of tropical and subtropical regions caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani and transmitted by sand flies of the genus Phlebo…

More fully blackwater fever. Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum, in which haemoglobinuria may occur after episodes of haemolysis. Cf. melanuric…

= febricula, n.

(see quot.).

a rarely fatal febrile disease, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella, which may be chronic but intermittent or acute and chiefly affects the…

(a) a passion for shooting rabbits or for breeding them (now rare or disused); (b) the disease tularaemia.

either of two bacterial diseases characterized by fever, rash, and arthritis, caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis and Spirillum minus, and…

a form of sleeping sickness caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, which occurs mainly in East Africa and typically runs a more rapid course…

an acute viral fever transmitted by flies of the genus Phlebotomus.

An acute infectious febrile disease of man and domestic animals caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis, endemic among wild rodents in North…

The form of rat-bite fever caused by Spirillum minus.

Infection with or disease caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella (see Brucella, n.); an instance of this.

a viral disease of eastern and southern Africa, originally recognized in livestock and later found also to affect humans, caused by a phlebovirus…

A mosquito-borne flavivirus, originally identified in African monkeys but increasingly affecting human populations, which can cause symptoms…

Used attributively in Lassa fever n. an acute febrile virus disease that occurs in tropical Africa with a high mortality rate (first reported at…

Marburg disease; Marburg virus.