Dengue

[deŋgi]

Definition

(noun.) an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints.

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Definition

(n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [Sp.] Break-bone fever, dandy-fever.

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Definition

n. an acute tropical epidemic fever seldom fatal—also breakbone-fever dandy-fever.

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