scarlet fever

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

scarlatina cellulitis rash pharyngitis exanthem pyrexia roseola impetigo infectious disease tonsillitis rheumatic fever contagious disease strawberry tongue necrotizing fasciitis high fever
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Hypernyms

contagion contagious disease

Examples

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever. John Steinbeck

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live. Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. Laura Ingalls Wilder

A scarlet fever epidemic in Richmond claimed the lives of his one-year-old daughter Mary Anne, his four-year-old son James, and eleven-year-old Augustus ("Gus"), all within a week. Source: Internet

At the age of 10, Konstantin caught scarlet fever and became hard of hearing. Source: Internet

Doud Dwight "Icky" Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three; citation Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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