noun. undefined

noun. Same as scarlet fever (which see, under fever).

noun. Scarlet fever.

noun. scarlet fever

noun. an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash

"The bookshelves held not only his old textbooks but also the newer paediatric encyclopaedias to which he had contributed articles on scarlatina — the subject of a postgraduate fellowship, as Klara had reminded him."

scarlatina anginosa  scarlatina maligna  

scarlatina hemorrhagica  

contagion  contagious disease  

chicken pox  croup  diptheria  drowning'  dysentery