HyperDic: marseilles_fever

English > 1 sense of the expression Marseilles fever:
NOUNstateMarseilles fever, Kenya fever, Indian tick fever, boutonneuse fevera disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals
English > Marseilles fever: 1 sense > noun 1, state
MeaningA disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals.
SynonymsKenya fever, Indian tick fever, boutonneuse fever
BroaderdiseaseAn impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

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