Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
fever and dengue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Med.) See
dengue .
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- noun pathology
dengue fever .
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- noun an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
Etymologies
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Coinage attributed to Benjamin Rush because of the symptoms of myalgia and arthralgia.
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