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TRENCH FEVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trench fever mean?
• TRENCH FEVER (noun)
The noun TRENCH FEVER has 1 sense:
1. marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice
Familiarity information: TRENCH FEVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("trench fever" is a kind of...):
rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)
Context examples
B. quintana causes trench fever.
(Bartonella quintana, NCI Thesaurus)
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