Dengue

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  • noun. An acute, infectious tropical disease caused by a flavivirus transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A febrile epidemic disease, occurring especially in the West Indies and the southern United States, characterized by severe pain, particularly in the joints, and an eruption somewhat. resembling that of measles. The attack is violent but brief, and is seldom fatal. Also called dandy, dandy-fever, breakbone fever.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An acute febrile disease of the tropics caused by a flavivirus, transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
    • Word Usage
    "I mean cholera has been around forever, and dengue is among us."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    infectious disease  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    acclimation  aguish  descolada  endemial  enteric  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    breakbone fever  dandy fever  dengue fever  
    variant
    breakbone fever  
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