(Med.)

a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms; - a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever.

See also: Gastric

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Gastric fever