trench fever

Noun

Meaning

trench fever (countable and uncountable, plural trench fevers)

(medicine) An acute infectious disease, caused by the microorganism Rickettsia quintana (now Bartonella quintana) and transmitted by the louse Pediculus humanus, that affected very many soldiers during World War I.

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Synonyms

typhus anaplasmosis cerebrospinal meningitis typhous five-day fever

Hypernyms

rickettsiosis rickettsial disease

Close letter words and terms

trench digger trench dress trench effect trench foot trench knife trench mentality