CHILLS AND FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chills and fever mean? 

• CHILLS AND FEVER (noun)
  The noun CHILLS AND FEVER has 1 sense:

1. successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria

  Familiarity information: CHILLS AND FEVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHILLS AND FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ague; chills and fever

Hypernyms ("chills and fever" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chills and fever"):

quartan (a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day)

Holonyms ("chills and fever" is a part of...):

malaria (an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever)