dengue

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An acute, infectious tropical disease caused by a flavivirus transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A febrile epidemic disease, occurring especially in the West Indies and the southern United States, characterized by severe pain, particularly in the joints, and an eruption somewhat. resembling that of measles. The attack is violent but brief, and is seldom fatal. Also called dandy, dandy-fever, breakbone fever.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Med.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun pathology An acute febrile disease of the tropics caused by a flavivirus, transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints