RABBIT FEVER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals

Synonyms:

deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

zoonosis; zoonotic disease (an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans)

Meronyms (parts of "rabbit fever"):

chancre (a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis))

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