HAVERHILL FEVER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The form of ratbite fever occurring in the United States

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Haverhill fever" is a kind of...):

ratbite fever (either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions)

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