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scarlet fever

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

  • noun An acute contagious disease caused by a hemolytic streptococcus, occurring predominantly among children and characterized by a scarlet skin eruption and high fever.

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  • noun pathology A streptococcal infection, mainly occurring among children, and characterized by a red skin rash, sore throat and fever.

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  • noun an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash

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synonyms (127)

Words with the same meaning

  1. African lethargy
  2. Asiatic cholera
  3. Chagres fever
  4. German measles
  5. Haverhill fever
  6. acute articular rheumatism
  7. ague
  8. alkali disease
  9. amebiasis
  10. amebic dysentery
  11. anthrax
  12. bacillary dysentery
  13. bastard measles
  14. black death
  15. black fever
  16. blackwater fever
  17. breakbone fever
  18. brucellosis
  19. bubonic plague
  20. cachectic fever
  21. cerebral rheumatism
  22. chicken pox
  23. cholera
  24. cowpox
  25. dandy fever
  26. deer fly fever
  27. dengue
  28. dengue fever
  29. diphtheria
  30. dumdum fever
  31. dysentery
  32. elephantiasis
  33. encephalitis lethargica
  34. enteric fever
  35. erysipelas
  36. famine fever
  37. five-day fever
  38. flu
  39. frambesia
  40. glandular fever
  41. grippe
  42. hansenosis
  43. hepatitis
  44. herpes
  45. herpes simplex
  46. herpes zoster
  47. histoplasmosis
  48. hookworm
  49. hydrophobia
  50. infantile paralysis
  51. infectious mononucleosis
  52. inflammatory rheumatism
  53. influenza
  54. jail fever
  55. jungle rot
  56. kala azar
  57. kissing disease
  58. lepra
  59. leprosy
  60. leptospirosis
  61. loa loa
  62. loaiasis
  63. lockjaw
  64. madness
  65. malaria
  66. malarial fever
  67. marsh fever
  68. measles
  69. meningitis
  70. milzbrand
  71. mumps
  72. ornithosis
  73. osteomyelitis
  74. paratyphoid fever
  75. parotitis
  76. parrot fever
  77. pertussis
  78. pneumonia
  79. polio
  80. poliomyelitis
  81. polyarthritis rheumatism
  82. ponos
  83. psittacosis
  84. rabbit fever
  85. rabies
  86. rat-bite fever
  87. relapsing fever
  88. rheumatic fever
  89. rickettsialpox
  90. ringworm
  91. rubella
  92. rubeola
  93. scarlatina
  94. schistosomiasis
  95. septic sore throat
  96. shingles
  97. sleeping sickness
  98. sleepy sickness
  99. smallpox
  100. snail fever
  101. splenic fever
  102. spotted fever
  103. strep throat
  104. swamp fever
  105. tetanus
  106. thrush
  107. tinea
  108. trench fever
  109. trench mouth
  110. tuberculosis
  111. tularemia
  112. typhoid
  113. typhoid fever
  114. typhus
  115. typhus fever
  116. undulant fever
  117. vaccinia
  118. varicella
  119. variola
  120. venereal disease
  121. viral dysentery
  122. whooping cough
  123. yaws
  124. yellow fever
  125. yellow jack
  126. zona
  127. zoster

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. contagion
  2. contagious disease

forms (2)

Forms

  1. miniature scarlet fever
  2. scarlet fever erythrogenic toxin

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  • treeseed commented on the word scarlet fever

    Scarlet fever is a disease caused by an exotoxin released by Streptococcus pyogenes Group A and occurs rarely with impetigo or other streptococcal infections. It is characterized by sore throat, fever, a 'strawberry' tongue, and a fine sandpaper rash over the upper body that may spread to cover almost the entire body. This disease was also once known as Scarlatina (from the Italian scarlattina).

    _Wikipedia

    January 29, 2008