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den⋅gue

  [deng-gey, -gee]
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–noun Pathology.
an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized esp. by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
Also called dengue fever.

Origin:
1820–30, Americanism; < AmerSp
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den·gue   (děng'gē, -gā)   
n.  An acute, infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. Also called breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever.

[American Spanish, alteration (influenced by dengue, affectation) of Swahili -dinga.]
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dengue 
1828, from W. Indian Sp. dengue, from an African source, perhaps Swahili dinga "seizure, cramp," form influenced by Sp. dengue "prudery" (perhaps because sufferers walk stiffly and erect due to painful joints). The disease is African, introduced to the West Indies 1827.
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Main Entry: den·gue
Pronunciation: 'de[ng]-gE, -"gA
Function: noun
: an acute infectious disease that is caused by any of several flaviviruses (genusFlavivirus) transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes and that is characterized by headache, severe joint pain, and a rash called also breakbone fever, dandy fever,dengue fever
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dengue den·gue (děng'gē, -gā)
n.
An acute, infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes, characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. Also called breakbone fever, dandy fever.

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