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Definition: Relapsing Fever |
Relapsing FeverNoun1. 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 FeverSynonym: recurrent fever (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Relapsing Fever |
| English words defined with "relapsing fever": borrelia ♦ recurrent fever. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
relapsing fever | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) возвратный тиф. (various references) povratna groznica. (various references) fiebre recurrente (African tick fever, African tick typhus). (various references) återfallstyfus. (various references) yeniden yükselen ateş, tekrarlayan ateş. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6C 61 70 73 69 6E 67      46 65 76 65 72 |
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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)R e l a p s i n g   F e v e r |
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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