DENGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dengue mean? 

• DENGUE (noun)
  The noun DENGUE has 1 sense:

1. an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

  Familiarity information: DENGUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

breakbone fever; dandy fever; dengue; dengue fever

Hypernyms ("dengue" is a kind of...):

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

 Context examples 

Classical dengue (dengue fever) is self-limiting and characterized by fever, myalgia, headache, and rash.

(Dengue Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The body's immune responses to the Zika and dengue viruses are so similar that, until now, it has been difficult to tell a recent Zika infection from a historical dengue infection.

(New blood test to detect Zika approved in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

Flaviviruses include dengue virus, Zika virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, Powassan virus and several other viruses.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

The serotype labeled 1 of the viral species Dengue virus, which is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family and Flavivirus genus, and causes dengue fever.

(Dengue Virus 1, NCI Thesaurus)

People with the more severe forms of dengue usually need to go to the hospital and get fluids.

(Dengue, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Mosquitoes carry and spread several serious diseases, including dengue, malaria, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

Because several types of viral infections involve an unconstrained inflammatory response, the group tested natural and their synthetic PE in the laboratory against dengue fever virus-infected human cells.

(Natural lipid acts as potent anti-inflammatory, National Institutes of Health)

The serotype labeled 3 of the viral species Dengue virus, which is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family and Flavivirus genus, and causes dengue fever.

(Dengue Virus 3, NCI Thesaurus)

The research also mentioned a reduction in reported dengue cases in a smaller field study in Vinh Luong, Vietnam, in 2018.

(Bacteria-infected mosquitoes slash dengue cases, SciDev.Net)

The serotype labeled 4 of the viral species Dengue virus, which is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family and Flavivirus genus, and causes dengue fever.

(Dengue Virus 4, NCI Thesaurus)