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Scarlet Fever

Definition: Scarlet Fever

Scarlet Fever

Noun

1. An acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash.

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


Specialty Definition: Scarlet Fever

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To dream of scarlet fever, foretells you are in danger of sickness, or in the power of an enemy. To dream a relative dies suddenly with it, foretells you will be overcome by villainous treachery. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Health

Infection with group A streptococci that is characterized by tonsillitis and pharyngitis. An erythematous rash is commonly present. (references)

Medicine

An acute infectious disease caused by strains of haemolytic streptococci. Source: European Union. (references)
 An acute communicable disease characterised by fever, strawberry-coloured tongue, and a typical rash starting on the neck and chest and spreading to the abdomen and limbs, caused by the bacterium streptococcus scarlatinae. Source: European Union. (references)
 An acute contagious childhood disease caused by a hemolytic streptococcus; called also scarlatina. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Scarlet Fever

Synonym: scarlatina (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Scarlet Fever

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Scarlet Fever

English words defined with "scarlet fever": Canker rashDick teststrep, streptococci, streptococcus. (references)
Specialty definitions using "scarlet fever": Streptococcus pyogenes. (references)

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Modern Usage: Scarlet Fever

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Scarlet fever, high temperatures, concussions? (A Nightmare On Elm Street; writing credit: Wes Craven)

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Photo Album: Scarlet Fever

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In the last century, infections by Streptococcus pyogenes, (S. hemolyticus), claimed many lives, especially since the organism was the most important cause of puerperal fever and scarlet fever. Streptococci. Credit: CDC.

A pus specimen, viewed using Pappenheim's stain. Last century, infections by S. pyogenes claimed many lives especially since the organism was the most important cause of puerperal fever and scarlet fever. Streptococci. Credit: CDC.

Scarlet Fever : Keep out of this house / Buckley & Curtin. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Quarantine Scarlet Fever. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[A scarlet fever patient recieves care]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

  

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Scarlet Fever

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Health

The child had scarlet fever. (references)

Dengue is commonly confused with other infectious illnesses such as influenza, measles, malaria, typhoid, leptospirosis, and scarlet fever. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scarlet 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

scarlet fever

714

scarlet fever picture

35

child with scarlet fever

3
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Modern Translation: Scarlet Fever

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

Albanian

  

skarlatinë (scarlatina), fruth i zi, fruth i keq. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حمى قرمزية (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скарлатина (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

喉痧 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

spála (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skarlagensfeber (scarlatina), scarlatina (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

scarlatina (scarlatina), roodvonk (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tulirokko. (various references)

   

French

  

scarlatine (scarlatina). (various references)

   

German

  

Scharlachfieber, Scharlach (scarlatina, scarlet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οστρακιά (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

skarlát (scarlet), vörheny (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scarlattina (scarlatina, scarlet). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

猩紅熱 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しょう"うねつ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

yn chiassagh jiarg (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arletscay everfay

   

Portuguese

  

escarlatina (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

scarlatinã (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

скарлатина (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

šarlahna groznica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escarlatina (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

scharlakansfeber (scarlatina). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kızıl hastalığı (scarlatina), kızıl (lurid, red, rusty, scarlatina). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tдjihoraz, hцrezek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Scarlet Fever

Misspellings

"Scarlet Fever" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scarlett fever. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Scarlet Fever

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-f-l-r-r-s-t-v"

-3 letters: cervelats, cleverest, falterers, recreates, revealers, travelers.

-4 letters: alterers, arrestee, carefree, caterers, cervelas, cervelat, clearers, clearest, cleavers, cleverer, elevates, erecters, falterer, ferrates, fleecers, leverets, ravelers, realters, recrates, recreate, reelects, reerects, reflates, reflects, refracts, relaters, releaser, retraces, revealer, revelers, reversal, secreter, slaverer, teaseler, terraces, traveler, traverse, treacles.

-5 letters: afreets, alerter, alterer, careers, carrels, cartels, carters.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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