purpuric fever
Medicine
noun
1Meningococcal meningitis (now historical ).
2(In full Brazilian purpuric fever) a fulminant septicaemia of children occurring as a complication of conjunctivitis caused by certain clones of Hemophilus influenzaebiogroup aegyptius.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Lancet.
- neutron chopper
- neutron counter
- neutron diffraction
- neutron excess
- neutronic
- neutronium
- neutronization
- neutron number
- neutron optics
- neutron radiography
- neutron-rich
- neutron scattering
- neutron spectrometer
- neutron star
- neutron therapy
- neutron warhead
- neutropenia
- neutropenic
- neutrophil
- neutrophilia
- neutrophilic
- neutrophilous
- Nev.
- Neva
- Nevada