Colorado tick fever

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noun Pathology.

a usually mild viral disease occurring in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, carried by a tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and characterized by fever, sensitivity to light, headache, and leg and back pain.

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Origin of Colorado tick fever

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby Colorado tick fever

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How to use Colorado tick fever in a sentence

Even though clerks in Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and other states have been doing exactly that.
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She actually had never been to a Deer Tick show before, but she liked it a lot.
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So we picked out the song (“Rhiannon,” click here for video), and Deer Tick learned it.
Deer Tick's John McCauley on Ten Years in Rock and Roll|James Joiner|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.
My Love Letter to the Stetson|Mark McKinnon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Even in places as blue-leaning as Colorado, Latino support for pro-growth Republicans has been growing.
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Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
“The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Père Bracasse was ill, suffering from rheumatism, bronchitis, fever and corns.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.
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If the fever ends by crisis, the crisis is accompanied by a rapid and striking increase.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

Medical definitions for Colorado tick fever

Colorado tick fever

[ kŏl′ə-răd′ō, -rä′dō ]

A viral infection transmitted to humans by the tick Dermacentor andersoni and characterized by mild symptoms and intermittent fever.