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Definition of Rock fever
1. Noun. Infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache.
Generic synonyms: Infectious Disease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Fever
Literary usage of Rock fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... 506 Rock fever —ROCK ISLAND Rock fever. See MALTA FEVER. ROCK-FISH, the name
of several fishes usually found about reefs and on rocky bottom. ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"It has accordingly received a variety of specific names—" rock fever,' "
Mediterranean remittent fever," " gastric remittent fever," ..."
3. Mediterranean, Malta Or Undulant Fever by M. Louis Hughes (1897)
"... of "Rock fever." He says that he was "led to believe that the bulk of the
cases diller in no essential respect from enteric fever as it is met with ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: designed for the use of by William Osler (1892)
"The identity of Malta and the so-called rock fever of Gibraltar is, however, by
no means certain. In the number of the Journal referred to, Surgeon Perry ..."
5. A Popular History of Gibraltar, Its Institutions, and Its Neighbourhood on by Gilbard (George James) (1881)
"Rock fever is occasionally prevalent among them, and curiously enough, is more
common in the regiments which are quartered in the coolest situations, ..."
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