spotted fever
any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
Origin of spotted fever
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How to use spotted fever in a sentence
And one spring, when the high-water went down, the children got sickly and begun dying off of this here spotted fever.
Back Home | Irvin S. CobbBut this spotted fever is cousin-german to it at least, and makes as quick riddance almost.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles CreightonThe spotted fever and the flux doubtless continued side by side with the plague, having been its forerunners.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles CreightonAt the same time typhus or spotted fever was not new to England in 1643.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles CreightonWe have already had evidence of the wide prevalence of spotted fever in 1624, even in the houses of the rich.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles Creighton
British Dictionary definitions for spotted fever
any of various severe febrile diseases characterized by small irregular spots on the skin, as in Rocky Mountain spotted fever or tick fever
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