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fever[1,noun] fever[2,verb] African swine fever aphthous fever biliary fever blackwater fever blue comb boutonneuse fever breakbone fever brucellosis byssinosis canicola fever catarrhal fever catbite fever cat fever catheter fever cat scratch disease cattle-tick fever cerebrospinal fever cerebrospinal meningitis chikungunya childbed fever clinical thermometer coccidioidomycosis cold sore Colorado tick fever dandy fever deerfly fever dengue dengue hemorrhagic fever dumdum fever east coast fever Ebola enteric fever ephemeral fever epidemic hemorrhagic fever equine infectious anemia fever blister fever therapy fever thermometer field fever foot-and-mouth disease glandular fever hay fever heartwater hemorrhagic fever hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome hog cholera hospital fever infectious mononucleosis jail fever jungle fever jungle yellow fever kala-azar Katayama syndrome Kenya typhus Korean hemorrhagic fever Lassa fever lung fever malarial fever malignant catarrhal fever Malta fever Marburg fever Marseilles fever Mediterranean fever Mexican fever Mexican spotted fever Mianeh fever milk fever mill fever Monday fever Mossman fever mountain fever mud fever Nine Mile fever Omsk hemorrhagic fever Oroya fever panleukopenia papataci fever pappataci fever paratyphoid[2,noun] parrot fever pharyngoconjunctival fever phlebotomus fever Pontiac fever Potomac horse fever pretibial fever prison fever psittacosis puerperal fever Q fever rabbit fever rat-bite fever recurrent fever relapsing fever rheumatic fever Rift Valley fever Rocky Mountain spotted fever rose fever run sandfly fever San Joaquin fever San Joaquin valley fever scarlet fever schistosomiasis ship fever shipping fever snail fever splenic fever spotted fever swamp fever swine fever Texas fever Texas fever tick three-day fever tick-bite fever tick-borne fever tick fever trench fever tularemia typhoid fever typhus fever undulant fever uveoparotid fever valley fever West Nile fever yellow fever yellow-fever mosquito

Main Entry: ¹fe·ver
Pronunciation: f-vr
Function: noun
1 : a rise of body temperature above the normal whether a natural response (as to infection) or artificially induced for therapeutic reasons
2 : an abnormal bodily state characterized by increased production of heat, accelerated heart action and pulse, and systemic debility with weakness, loss of appetite, and thirst
3 : any of various diseases of which fever is a prominent symptom -- see YELLOW FEVER, TYPHOID FEVER