RECURRENT FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recurrent fever mean? 

• RECURRENT FEVER (noun)
  The noun RECURRENT FEVER has 1 sense:

1. marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECURRENT FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

recurrent fever; relapsing fever

Hypernyms ("recurrent fever" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

The ever recurrent fever of expectancy assailed Martin as he took the bundle of long envelopes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)