sandfly fever

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noun Pathology.

a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.

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Also called phlebotomus fever.

Origin of sandfly fever

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby sandfly fever

S.&F., sandfish, sand flea, sand-floated, sandfly, sandfly fever, Sand, George, sandglass, sand-groper, sand grouse, S and H

How to use sandfly fever in a sentence

Besides, victory fever had spread like wildfire throughout the Allied armies.
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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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