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.
- uptick
- uptight
- uptime
- up to
- up to a point
- up to date
- up to eleven
- up to mud
- up to no good
- up to one's armpits
- up to one's ears in
- up to one's elbows in
- up to one's neck in
- up to one's (old) tricks
- up top
- up to par
- up to putty
- up to scratch
- up to snuff
- up to speed
- (up) to the hilt
- up to the mark
- up to the minute
- up to the (or one's) eyeballs
- up to the (or one's) eyes (in)