Definition of "scarlatina" []

• See scarlet fever. (noun)

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• "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."
• "He'd been forced to supplement his income with lectures when he could (some, in New York, recalled his scholarship on scarlatina)."
• "Of course, Klara knew about the death of his younger brother, then aged six, from scarlatina."