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HAVERHILL FEVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Haverhill fever mean?
• HAVERHILL FEVER (noun)
The noun HAVERHILL FEVER has 1 sense:
1. the form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States
Familiarity information: HAVERHILL FEVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Haverhill fever" is a kind of...):
ratbite fever (either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions)
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