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Definition of hospital fever in English: hospital fevernoun mass nounhistorical Louse-borne typhus acquired in overcrowded, insanitary conditions in an old-fashioned hospital. Example sentencesExamples - Tilton's log hut hospitals were found to be very conducive to the recovery of soldiers from hospital fever.
- Joseph Lister's experiments with antiseptics revolutionised 19 th-century surgery, reducing deaths from ‘hospital fever’.
- Palatine fever, gaol fever, hospital fever, camp fever, and ship fever are all names applied to typhus, an acute febrile disease transmitted to man by body lice.
- About two weeks after I entered the hospital I took hospital fever and was delirious for two or three weeks.
Definition of hospital fever in US English: hospital fevernoun historical Louse-borne typhus acquired in overcrowded, insanitary conditions in an old-fashioned hospital. Example sentencesExamples - Joseph Lister's experiments with antiseptics revolutionised 19 th-century surgery, reducing deaths from ‘hospital fever’.
- About two weeks after I entered the hospital I took hospital fever and was delirious for two or three weeks.
- Palatine fever, gaol fever, hospital fever, camp fever, and ship fever are all names applied to typhus, an acute febrile disease transmitted to man by body lice.
- Tilton's log hut hospitals were found to be very conducive to the recovery of soldiers from hospital fever.
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