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recurrent fever
recurrent fevern. See relapsing fever.recurrent fever n (Pathology) another name for relapsing fever Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | recurrent fever - marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several monthsrelapsing feverinfectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact |
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recurrent [re-kur´ent] returning after a remission; reappearing.recurrent fever 1. relapsing fever.2. recurrent paroxysmal fever occurring in various diseases, including tularemia, meningococcemia, malaria, and rat-bite fever.re·lap·sing fe·veran acute infectious disease caused by any one of a number of strains of Borrelia, marked by a number of febrile attacks lasting about 6 days and separated from each other by apyretic intervals of about the same length; the microorganism is found in the blood during the febrile periods but not during the intervals, the disappearance being associated with specific antibodies and previously evoked antibodies. There are two epidemiologic varieties: the louse-borne variety, occurring chiefly in Europe, northern Africa, and India, and caused by strains of B. recurrentis; and the tick-borne variety, occurring in Africa, Asia, and North and South America, caused by various species, each of which is transmitted by a different species of the soft tick, Ornithodoros. Synonym(s): bilious typhoid of Griesinger, recurrent fever, spirillum fever, typhiniarecurrent fevern. See relapsing fever.recurrent fever
Related to recurrent fever: relapsing feverSynonyms for recurrent fevernoun marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticksSynonymsRelated Words |