RHEUMATIC FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rheumatic fever mean? 

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

1. a severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHEUMATIC FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "rheumatic fever"):

rheumatic aortitis (aortitis occurring in rheumatic fever)

 Context examples 

“Mr. Wickfield is unwell in bed, sir, of a rheumatic fever,” he returned; “but Miss Wickfield, I have no doubt, will be happy to see old friends. Will you walk in, sir?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had had difficulties of every sort to contend with, and in addition to these distresses had been afflicted with a severe rheumatic fever, which, finally settling in her legs, had made her for the present a cripple.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)