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单词 trench fever
释义

trench fever

noun

: a disease that is usually marked by fever and pain in muscles, bones, and joints and that is caused by a bacterium (Bartonella quintana synonym Rochalimaea quintana) transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Infectious diseases ran rampant during World War I, with ailments ranging from influenza to trench fever, meningitis and pneumonia plaguing soldiers stationed on the frontlines. Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020 An estimated 380,000 to 520,000 British soldiers contracted trench fever during World War I. Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020 The most recent addition to the author’s oeuvre, The Fall of Gondolin, was published in August 2018 but originally written more than a century earlier, when Tolkien was recovering from trench fever in 1917. Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020 But whereas body lice can spread diseases, including epidemic typhus, trench fever and even the plague, head lice have never been blamed for any such outbreak. Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 1 June 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1915, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

trench fever

noun

ˈtrench- How to pronounce trench fever (audio)
: a disease that is usually marked by fever and pain in muscles, bones, and joints and that is caused by a bacterium (Bartonella quintana synonym Rochalimaea quintana) transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
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