hemorrhagic fever

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noun Pathology.

any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.

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Words nearby hemorrhagic fever

hemorrhagic ascites, hemorrhagic colitis, hemorrhagic cyst, hemorrhagic disease of newborn, hemorrhagic endovasculitis, hemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, hemorrhagic infarct, hemorrhagic measles, hemorrhagic plague, hemorrhagic rickets

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How to use hemorrhagic fever in a sentence

It causes hemorrhagic fever and is closely related to a giant virus that La Scola and his team isolated in Marseille from sewage.
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Besides, victory fever had spread like wildfire throughout the Allied armies.
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The sets—which, really, were a feat of design and direction—appeared to be remnants of a Lewis Carroll fever dream.
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Future lives, careers and attitudes were being determined in this lightly regulated fever.
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Spirits in Stanleyville were high, and a local 19-year-old was emboldened by independence fever.
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Take Too Many Cooks: a fever dream of a segment that aired at 4:00am earlier this week.
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Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
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Père Bracasse was ill, suffering from rheumatism, bronchitis, fever and corns.
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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.
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The spirillum of relapsing fever can be identified by the method for the malarial parasite in fresh blood.
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Medical definitions for hemorrhagic fever

hemorrhagic fever

A syndrome that occurs in perhaps 20 percent to 40 percent of infections by certain arboviruses and is marked by high fever, scattered petechiae, bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract and other organs, hypotension, and shock.

Scientific definitions for hemorrhagic fever

hemorrhagic fever

[ hĕm′ə-răj′ĭk ]

Any of a group of viral infections, including dengue, Ebola virus infection and yellow fever, that occur primarily in tropical climates, are usually transmitted to humans by arthropods or rodents, and are characterized by high fever, internal bleeding, hypotension, and eventual shock.