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Typhus Fever

Definition: Typhus Fever

Typhus Fever

Noun

1. Rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever.

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


Synonym: Typhus Fever

Synonym: typhus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Typhus Fever

English words defined with "typhus fever": Ataxic feverCamp feverHans ZinsserJail feverputrid feverspotted feverTyphomaniaZinsser. (references)
Specialty definitions using "typhus fever": Rickettsia prowazekii. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Typhus Fever

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Books

  • Rats, lice, & history : being a study in biography, which, after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever (reference)

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Photo Album: Typhus Fever

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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.

[Exterior of the typhus fever ward at Military Hospital No. 45, an isolation hospital, Gungalin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Scrub Typhus Fever : Wear Clothing that has been Impregnated... Credit: National Library of Medicine.

If You Are In This Area : Look Out For Scrub Typhus Fever. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Maybe you had chiggers back home but none like these : This Chigger Carries Scrub Typhus Fever. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

IMPREGNATION gives protection from Scrub Typhus Fever : Be sure your clothing is properly impregnated. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Typhus Fever / Elon Clark. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

  

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Typhus 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

typhus fever

4
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Modern Translation: Typhus Fever

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

French

  

fièvre exanthématique. (various references)

   

German

  

Fleckfieber (epidemic typhus). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yphustay everfay

   

Spanish

  

tifus (typhus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Typhus Fever

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-p-r-s-t-u-v-y"

-4 letters: freshet, hefters, perfuse, prevues, prythee, purveys, putrefy, refutes, reputes, retypes, shuteye, stupefy, threeps, tuyeres, vesture.

-5 letters: erupts, ethers, everts, fester, fevers, feyest, freest, hefter, heresy, herpes, peruse, pester, peters, preset, prevue, purees, purest, purvey, pusher, refuse, refute, repute, retuse, retype, revest, revets, revues, rupees, rushee, sphere, sphery, surety, survey, sypher, tepefy, theres.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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