YELLOW FEVER
\jˈɛlə͡ʊ fˈiːvə], \jˈɛləʊ fˈiːvə], \j_ˈɛ_l_əʊ f_ˈiː_v_ə]\
Definitions of YELLOW FEVER
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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An acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Epidemic febrile disease, highly fatal; skins turns deep brown accompanied by vomiting black matter.
By William R. Warner
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A malignant febrile disease, indigenous chiefly to the West Indies, upper coasts of South America, the borders of the Gulf of Mexico, and the Southern United States. It is attended with yellowness of the skin, of some shade between lemon-yellow and the deepest orange-yellow. It resembles typhus fever in the prostration, blood-disorganization, and softening of internal organs which are features of both diseases.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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An infectious fever, chiefly of tropical America, with intense pains, jaundice, and the vomiting of blackened blood.
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A dangerous bacterial infective fever, chiefly of tropical America, characterized by jaundice, hemorrhage, and bloody vomiting.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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