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spotted fever

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spotted fever
n.
1. Any of various often fatal infectious diseases, such as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, characterized by skin eruptions and caused by rickettsia that are transmitted by ticks and mites.
2. An epidemic form of cerebrospinal meningitis.
spotted fever
n
(Medicine / Pathology) 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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Noun1.spotted fever - any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin
rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis - infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria
mountain fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick fever - caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks
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