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单词 hospital fever
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Definition of hospital fever in English:

hospital fever

noun
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 fever

noun
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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