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Relapsing Fever

Definition: Relapsing Fever

Relapsing Fever

Noun

1. Marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Relapsing Fever

Synonym: recurrent fever (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Relapsing Fever

English words defined with "relapsing fever": borreliarecurrent fever. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Relapsing Fever

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Yes. Epidemics of typhus and louse-borne relapsing fever have been caused by body lice. Though typhus is no longer widespread, epidemics still occur during times of war, civil unrest, natural disasters, in refugee camps, and prisons where people live crowded together in unsanitary conditions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Relapsing Fever

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

relapsing fever

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Relapsing Fever

Language Translations for "relapsing fever"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

recidiverende feber, feberrecidiv. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nakoorts. (various references)

   

French

  

fièvre récurrente. (various references)

   

German

  

Rekurrensfieber, Nachfieber, Febris recurrens. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υπόστροφος πυρετός της Ινδοκίνας (Indochinese relapsing fever), υπόστροφος πυρετός (Indian relapsing fever), υποτροπιάζων πυρετός του Καυκάσου (Caucasian relapsing fever). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

visszatérõ láz. (various references)

   

Italian

  

febbre secondaria, febbre residua. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elapsingray everfay

   

Portuguese

  

febre recorrente hispano-africana (Spanish-North African relapsing fever), febre recorrente espanhola (Spanish-North African relapsing fever), febre recorrente do Cáucaso (Caucasian relapsing fever), febre recorrente da Indochina (Indochinese relapsing fever), febre recorrente da India (Indian relapsing fever), febre recorrente asiática (Asiatic relapsing fever). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

возвратный тиф. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

povratna groznica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fiebre recurrente (African tick fever, African tick typhus). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

återfallstyfus. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden yükselen ateş, tekrarlayan ateş. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Relapsing Fever

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-f-g-i-l-n-p-r-r-s-v"

-3 letters: persevering, rereleasing.

-4 letters: generalise, grapevines, greenflies, peregrines, persiflage, pilferages, preserving, reengraves, reprievals.

-5 letters: algerines, engravers, enlargers, farseeing, ferneries, ferreling, ferriages, filagrees, finaglers, fingerers, flaneries, graperies, grapevine, graplines, laveering, leverages, lifesaver, lingerers, pelerines, peregrine, peregrins, pilferage, pilferers, ravelings, reengrave, refeeling, regainers, relapsing, releasing, relievers, repealers, repealing, replevies, replevins, reprieval, reprieves, resealing, reserpine, reserving, revealers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Relapsing Fever


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

52 65 6C 61 70 73 69 6E 67      46 65 76 65 72

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

    

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

01010010 01100101 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#108 &#97 &#112 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#70 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 006C 0061 0070 0073 0069 006E 0067      0046 0065 0076 0065 0072

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

52717867828575807324071887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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