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Endemic Typhus

Definition: Endemic Typhus

Endemic Typhus

Noun

1. Acute infection caused by rickettsia and transmitted by the bite of an infected flea; characterized by fever and chills and muscle aches and a rash.

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Synonyms: Endemic Typhus

Synonyms: murine typhus (n), rat typhus (n), urban typhus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Endemic Typhus

Specialty definitions using "endemic typhus": Rickettsia typhi. (references)

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Photo Album: Endemic Typhus

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R. norvegicus is known to be a reservoir of bubonic plague (transmitted to man by the bite of a flea or other insect), endemic typhus fever, ratbite fever, and a few other dreaded diseases.Credit: CDC.

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Modern Translations: Endemic Typhus

Language Translations for "endemic typhus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

typhus murin, typhus bénin. (various references)

   

German

  

endemisches Fleckfieber (murine typhus), Toulon-Fleckfieber (murine typhus), Tabardillo-Fleckfieber (murine typhus), Shop-typhus (murine typhus), murines Fleckfieber (murine typhus), Moskaufieber (murine typhus), Morbus pulicaris (murine typhus), mexikanisches Fleckfieber (murine typhus), mandschurisches Fleckfieber (Asian typhus fever, murine typhus), Flohfleck-Fleckfieber (murine typhus). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

endemicay yphustay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Endemic Typhus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-m-n-p-s-t-u-y"

-3 letters: impudences.

-4 letters: dehiscent, ecumenist, euphemist, euphenics, euthenics, impudence, inductees, inspected, pediments, phenetics, pudencies, punchiest.

-5 letters: centimes, cepheids, chedites, chimneys, chutnees, chutneys, cysteine, deputies, detinues, diptychs, dumpiest, dutchmen, dyspneic, encysted, endemics, enthused, euphenic, hempiest, humpiest, impudent, incepted, inductee, inmeshed, mistuned, mistyped, munchies, nymphets, pectines, pediment, penuches, penuchis, phenetic, pitchmen, punished, sediment, seminude, shipment, sithence, smutched, snitched, specimen, syndetic, tenesmic, thymines, unmeshed.

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Alternative Orthography: Endemic Typhus


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 64 65 6D 69 63      54 79 70 68 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100011 00100000 01010100 01111001 01110000 01101000 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#99 &#32 &#84 &#121 &#112 &#104 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0064 0065 006D 0069 0063      0054 0079 0070 0068 0075 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

398070717975692549182748785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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