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spotted fever

Definition of spotted fever

noun

[mass noun]
  • any of a number of diseases characterized by fever and skin spots, in particular:
  • cerebrospinal meningitis.
  • typhus.
  • (also Rocky Mountain spotted fever) a rickettsial disease transmitted by ticks.

spotted fever in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of spotted fever in the US English dictionary