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Definition of "spotted fever" [spotted fever]

  • Any of various often fatal infectious diseases, such as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, characterized by skin eruptions and caused by rickettsia that are transmitted by ticks and mites. (noun)
  • An epidemic form of cerebrospinal meningitis. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Words like "spotted fever"
Brazilian spotted fever
Flinders Island spotted fever
Japanese spotted fever
Kew Gardens spotted fever
Mediterranean spotted fever
Mexican spotted fever
mountain fever
Oriental spotted fever
rickettsial disease
rickettsiosis
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
tick fever