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Definition: Dengue |
DengueNoun1. An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dengue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Virus disease; chiefly in tropical and semitropical regions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | An acute illness that starts suddenly, with fever, headache, weakness, aches and skin rash. Through mosquito transmission it can become epidemic in displaced and crowed settlements. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases, found in the tropics, with a geographical spread similar to malaria. Caused by one of four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus, each serotype is sufficiently different that there is no cross-protection and epidemics caused by multiple serotypes (hyperendemicity) can occur. It is transmitted to humans by the mosquito Aedes aegypti (rarely Aedes albopictus).
The disease is manifested by a sudden onset of fever, with severe headache, joint and muscular pains (myalgias and arthralgias, severe pain gives it the name break-bone fever), leukopenia and rashes, the dengue rash is characteristically bright red and covers most of the body. DHF also shows higher fever, haemorrhagic phenomena, thrombocytopenia and haemoconcentration. In around 5% of cases there is dengue shock syndrome (DDS) and hemorrhage, leading to death. There is no commercially ready vaccine.
The first epidemics occurred almost simulataneously, in Asia, Africa, and North America in the 1780s, the disease was identified and named in 1779. Initially it was rather benign. A global pandemic began in Southeast Asia in the 1950s, by 1975 DHF had become a leading cause of death among children in many countries in that region. Epidemic dengue has become more common since the 1980s, by the late 1990s dengue was the most important mosquito-borne viral disease affecting humans after malaria, there are around 40 million cases of dengue fever and several hundred thousand cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever each year. In February 2002 there was a serious outbreak in Rio De Janeiro, affecting around 1m people but only killing sixteen.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dengue fever."
Synonyms: DengueSynonyms: breakbone fever (n), dandy fever (n), dengue fever (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dengue |
| English words defined with "dengue": Aedes aegypti ♦ Dandy fever, dengue fever ♦ yellow-fever mosquito. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dengue": Dengue Virus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dengue" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (dengue), Spanish (dengue). |
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Movie/TV Titles | El Dengue del amor (1965) | |
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 | Aedes mediovittatus is known to be a container breeder, and may play a role in the inter-epidemic transmission of Dengue Fever.Credit: CDC. |  | There may be a row of closely set teeth, or spines on each side of the siphon near the ventral margin, otherwise know as "pectin". Aedes aegypti is a vector for Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), as well as Yellow Fever.Credit: CDC. |
 | Primarily a disease of the tropics, Dengue Fever is caused by one of four viruses of the genus Flavivrus and is spread by Aedes aegypti, a domestic, day-biting mosquito that prefers to feed on humans.Credit: CDC. |  | In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States, such as spraying for mosquitos using a hand-held compressed air sprayer.Credit: CDC. |
 | The Aedes aegypti is a vector for Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), as well as Yellow Fever. This mosquito is 3 - 4mm in length, and is black with white spots on the body and head regions, and has white rings on its legs.Credit: CDC. |  | Destroy their 'Fox Holes' : this mosquito spreads dengue & yellow fever.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Su Picadura Produce EL DENGUE : Evite Que Anide En Su Hogar.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Curta o vera ?o sem dengue.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Febre amarela e dengue.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Mantenha o dengue fora do ar.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | No dengue vaccine is available. (references) | |
New Zealand is free of dengue fever. (references) | ||
A. DHF is a more severe form of dengue. (references) | ||
Trade | Costa Rica | The Government of Costa Rica prohibits the importation of used tires without rims, because mosquitoes carrying yellow fever or dengue fever breed in water accumulated in rimless tires. (references) |
Travel | Barbados | Barbados is experiencing a growing problem with dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral illness. (references) |
Costa Rica | Mosquitoes carrying malaria and dengue fever have been found in low-lying areas along both coasts. (references) | |
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| "Dengue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dengue" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dengue": dengue fever ♦ Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever ♦ Dengue Virus. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "dengue": dengue-fever. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dengue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ethe tropikale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | остра заразна тропическа треска, денга. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 登革热. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dengue-feber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue-fever, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), denguefeber, dengue (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), calentura roja (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | denguekoorts (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), dengue (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), vijfdaagse koorts (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), knokkelkoorts (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), coloradokoorts (dengue-fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | dengue-kuume (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), denguekuume. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dengue, fièvre rouge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Denguero (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Dengue-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Denguefieber, Dattel-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Dattelfieber, Dandy-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Siebentage-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Polka-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Knoechel-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Fuenftage-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Cavi-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), calentura roja (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Aden-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), Abderiten-Fieber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue-fever, saddle back fever, three-day sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δάγκειοσ πυρετόσ, δάγκειος (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), δάγγειος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ' "רת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | trópusi náthaláz (African fever, dengue-fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dengue (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue-fever, saddle back fever, three-day sickness), febbre terzana (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | デング熱 (dengue fever, Denmark, Denver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | デングねつ (dengue fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | engueday dengue (dengue-fever). (various references) тропическая лихорадка (calenture, jungle fever). (various references) denga, tropska groznica. (various references) Dengue (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue-fever, saddle back fever, three-day sickness). (various references) denguefeber (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, saddle back fever, three-day sickness). (various references) dang, eklem ağrılı ateşli bulaşıcı hastalık. (various references) тропічна пропасниця. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exanthesis rosalia arthrodynica, nosogenum:virus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dengue": dengues. (additional references) | |
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"Dengue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bengue, Dague, Dangu, dangue, Dedgun, Degoune, degue, degun, deigu, Dengie, dengo, d'ennui, denoue, denuve, dergue, dingoe, dingue, Dongbei, Dugue, dungee, dunque, fenghuo, Fengu, Menghua, Tengku, Udeghe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "dengue" (pronounced 'Den"gue'): Azogue, Outargue, Reargue, Redargue. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-n-u" | |
-1 letter: endue, nudge, undee. | |
-2 letters: dene, dune, dung, edge, geed, gene, genu, gude, need, nude, unde. | |
-3 letters: dee, den, due, dug, dun, end, eng, ged, gee, gen, gnu, gun, nee. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, en, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-n-u" | |
+1 letter: dengues. | |
+2 letters: dungaree, engulfed, expunged, geepound, hungered, nutsedge, repugned, underage, ungreedy, unhedged, unpegged. | |
+3 letters: augmented, burgeoned, dungarees, dungeoned, englutted, euglenoid, geepounds, gerundive, gudgeoned, guerdoned, guideline, judgement, negritude, nutsedges, replunged, roughened, toughened, unavenged, underages, undergoes, undergone, unfeigned, unfledged, unheeding. | |
+4 letters: bludgeoned, bourgeoned, divulgence, encouraged, endogenous, euglenoids, everduring, gauntleted, gerundives, gesundheit, guaranteed, guidelines, honeyguide, indulgence, judgements, negritudes, ruggedness, succeeding, unbudgeted, underglaze, undigested, unenlarged, unweighted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6E 67 75 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -. --. ..- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e n g u e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006E 0067 0075 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387180738771 |
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