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Undulant Fever

Definition: Undulant Fever

Undulant Fever

Noun

1. Infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache.

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


Specialty Definition: Undulant Fever

DomainDefinition

Medicine

A contagious disease primarily affecting cattle, swine, sheep, goats, dogs and occasionally horses; it is caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella(five species of this genus of bacteria are important, namely:B. abortus, B. melitensis, B. suis, B. ovis and B. canis)and characterized by abortion in the female and, to a lesser extent, orchitis and infection of the accessory sex glands in the male, and infertility in both sexes. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Undulant Fever

Synonym: brucellosis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Undulant Fever

English words defined with "undulant fever": BruceDavid BruceSir David Bruce. (references)
Specialty definitions using "undulant fever": Zoonotic diseases. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Undulant 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.
 
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undulant fever

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Modern Translation: Undulant Fever

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

Bulgarian 

  

бруцеола. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

波狀熱 (brucellosis). (various references)

   

Danish

  

svingefeber (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Gibraltarfeber (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), febris undulans (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), brucellose (Bang disease, Bruce septicemia, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Bang's sygdom (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

infectieuze abortus (Bang disease, Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, contagious abortion, Cyprus fever, infectious abortion, Malte fever), Gibraltarkoorts (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Cyprus fever (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), brucellosis Bang (Bang disease, Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, contagious abortion, Cyprus fever, infectious abortion, Malte fever), brucellosis (Bang disease, Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, contagious abortion, Cyprus fever, infectious abortion, Malte fever), brucelliasis (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), brucellaemia (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Bang-infectie (Bang disease, Bang's disease, bovine brucellosis, Brucella abortus infection, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, contagious abortion, Cyprus fever, infectious abortion, Malte fever). (various references)

   

French

  

fièvre ondulante, fièvre de Malte, brucellose. (various references)

   

German

  

Gibraltarfieber (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Febris undulans (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Febris dissecta (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), endemische Bazillokokkie (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Cypern-Fieber (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Bruzellose (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Bruzelliase (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Brucellosis (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), Brucelliasis (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bang-kór. (various references)

   

Italian

  

infezione brucellare (Bang disease, brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), febbre ondulante (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malta fever, Malte fever, Neapolitan fever), febbre maltese (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), brucellosi (brucellosis), brucellemia (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulantunday everfay

   

Portuguese

  

febre ondulante (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), febre de malta (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), doença de Bang (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), brucelose (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бруцеллез. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bruceloza. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fiebre ondulante (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever), brucelosis (brucellosis), bruceliasis (Bang disease, Brucella infection, brucelliasis, brucellosis, Cyprus fever, Malte fever). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Undulant Fever

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-l-n-n-r-t-u-u-v"

-3 letters: fraudulent, undervalue, uneventful, untraveled.

-4 letters: adventure, defaulter, unaltered, unlearned, unraveled, unrelated, untenured.

-5 letters: antlered, deflater, denature, dentural, eventful, eventual, faltered, featured, flaunted, flaunter, funereal, funneled, lanneret, lavender, levanted, levanter, neurulae, reflated, refluent, relevant, revalued, revenant, revenual, traveled, tunneled, tunneler, unaneled, unartful, underate, undereat, underlet, undulant, undulate, unearned, unfeared, unfurled, unlearnt, unnerved, unrented, unturned.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Undulant Fever


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

55 6E 64 75 6C 61 6E 74      46 65 76 65 72

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

    

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

01010101 01101110 01100100 01110101 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#100 &#117 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#70 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0064 0075 006C 0061 006E 0074      0046 0065 0076 0065 0072

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

558070877867808624071887184

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INDEX

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


  

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