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Definition of Recurrent fever
1. Noun. Marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months.
Medical Definition of Recurrent fever
1. An acute infection characterised by recurrent episodes of pyrexia alternating with asymptomatic intervals of apparent recovery. This condition has worldwide distribution and is caused by spirochetes of the genus borrelia. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurrent Fever
Literary usage of Recurrent fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1907)
"Besides, the spirochete discovered by Obermeier, in 1873, in the blood of patients
suffering from recurrent fever, is still considered as the only ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Kast, beside the 2 cases mentioned above, described recurrent fever in a sarcoma
of the hip and ... Musser's43 2 cases of recurrent fever were tuberculous. ..."
3. Microbes, Ferments and Moulds by Édouard Louis Trouessart (1886)
"recurrent fever AND YELLOW FEVER. We place these two diseases together, simply
because ... recurrent fever, or relapsing typhus, is a disease which has been ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"recurrent fever (Febris recurrens) Here several days of fever are followed by
several days of apyrexia. Such a recurring fever is characteristic of the ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1901)
"An analysis has been made of sixteen cases collected from the literature, in
which "recurrent fever" was a special feature occurring in the course of ..."
6. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences, for by New Sydenham Society (1873)
"And these facts lead him to believe that recurrent fever sets up a special
liability to malarial poison- iug. At the same time there is no relationship ..."
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