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Q FEVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Q fever mean?
• Q FEVER (noun)
The noun Q FEVER has 1 sense:
1. an acute disease resembling influenza
Familiarity information: Q FEVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acute disease resembling influenza
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Q fever" is a kind of...):
rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)
Context examples
C. burnetti is pathogenic, being the causative agent of Q fever.
(Coxiella burnetii, NCI Thesaurus)
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