DEER FLY FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deer fly fever mean? 

• DEER FLY FEVER (noun)
  The noun DEER FLY FEVER has 1 sense:

1. a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEER FLY FEVER (noun)

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Meaning:

A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo

Hypernyms ("deer fly fever" is a kind of...):

zoonosis; zoonotic disease (an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans)

Meronyms (parts of "deer fly fever"):

chancre (a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis))