tick fever
71boutonneuse fever — noun a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals • Syn: ↑Marseilles fever, ↑Kenya fever, ↑Indian tick… …
72mountain fever — noun caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks • Syn: ↑Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ↑tick fever • Hypernyms: ↑spotted fever * * * noun 1. : any of various febrile diseases occurring in mountainous regions: as …
73Texas fever — Tex·as fever tek səs n an infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick and caused by a sporozoan of the genus Babesia (B. bigemina) that multiplies in the blood and destroys red blood cells called also cattle tick fever, Texas… …
74Kenya fever — noun a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals • Syn: ↑Marseilles fever, ↑Indian tick fever,… …
75Marseilles fever — noun a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals • Syn: ↑Kenya fever, ↑Indian tick fever, ↑boutonneuse… …
76Rocky Mountain spotted fever — spotted fever; = tick fever a disease of rodents and other small mammals in the USA caused by the microorganism Rickettsia rickettsii and transmitted to humans by ticks. Symptoms include fever, muscle pains, and a profuse reddish rash like that… …
77Rocky Mountain spotted fever — noun caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks • Syn: ↑mountain fever, ↑tick fever • Hypernyms: ↑spotted fever …
78spotted fever — noun any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin • Hypernyms: ↑rickettsial disease, ↑rickettsiosis • Hyponyms: ↑Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ↑mountain fever, ↑tick fever …
79spotted fever — Pathol. 1. any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, esp. as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever. 2. See tick fever. [1640 50] * * * …
80spotted fever — spot′ted fe′ver n. 1) pat any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, as Rocky Mountain spotted fever 2) pat tick fever …
