haemorrhagic fever
(US hemorrhagic fever) Medicine
noun
A syndrome characterized by high fever, petechial rash, haemorrhage in the gastrointestinal tract and other organs, kidney damage, and shock, caused by any of a number of viruses (chiefly arboviruses); (also, frequently with distinguishing word) an instance or specific type of this.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus. After Russian gemorragičeskaja lixoradka.