SPOTTED FEVER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("spotted fever" is a kind of...):

rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spotted fever"):

mountain fever; Rocky Mountain spotted fever; tick fever (caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks)

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