Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A severe form of leptospirosis in humans that is characterized by jaundice, fever, muscle pain, and a tendency to hemorrhage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An infectious disease, having a course of about ten days, characterized by jaundice, muscular pains, enlargement of the liver and spleen, and fever. Also called
acute infectious jaundice .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Med.) An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
leptospirosis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a severe form of leptospirosis in human beings
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Adolf Weil, (1848–1916), German physician.]
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