spotted fever

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noun Pathology.

any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.

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Origin of spotted fever

First recorded in 1640–50

Words nearby spotted fever

spotted crake, spotted crane's-bill, spotted deer, spotted dick, spotted dog, spotted fever, spotted flycatcher, spotted gum, spotted hyena, spotted mackerel, Spotted Mist

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How to use spotted fever in a sentence

And one spring, when the high-water went down, the children got sickly and begun dying off of this here spotted fever.
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But this spotted fever is cousin-german to it at least, and makes as quick riddance almost.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
The spotted fever and the flux doubtless continued side by side with the plague, having been its forerunners.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
At the same time typhus or spotted fever was not new to England in 1643.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton

We have already had evidence of the wide prevalence of spotted fever in 1624, even in the houses of the rich.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton

British Dictionary definitions for spotted fever

spotted fever

noun

any of various severe febrile diseases characterized by small irregular spots on the skin, as in Rocky Mountain spotted fever or tick fever

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spotted fever

Origin of spotted fever

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British Dictionary definitions for spotted fever