Definition of Marseilles fever

1. Noun. A disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals.

Exact synonyms: Boutonneuse Fever, Indian Tick Fever, Kenya Fever
Generic synonyms: Disease

Medical Definition of Marseilles fever

1. A febrile disease of the mediterranean area, the crimea, africa, and india, caused by infection with rickettsia conorii. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marseilles Fever

Marranos
Marrubium vulgare
Marruecos
Mars
Mars Express
Mars Rover
Mars bar parties
Mars brown
Marsala
Marsalas
Marsaxlokk
Marseillaise
Marseille
Marseilles
Marseilles fever (current term)
Marsh
Marsha
Marshal
Marshal Saxe
Marshal Tito
Marshall
Marshall's method
Marshall's oblique vein
Marshall's vestigial fold
Marshall-Marchetti test
Marshall Islander
Marshall Islands
Marshall McLuhan

Literary usage of Marseilles fever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chopin: The Man and His Music by James Huneker (1909)
"He had been dangerously ill at Majorca and Marseilles. Fever and severe coughing proved to be the dread forerunners of the disease that killed him ten years ..."

2. The Province of Quebec and European Emigration by Québec (Province) (1870)
"The summer of Quebec is equal to that of Toulouse, in the south of France ; and the summer of Montreal equal to that of Marseilles. Fever and ague ..."

3. A Manual of Practical Hygiene by Edmund Alexander Parkes (1887)
"495 -Marseilles, fever in, . . .61 Marsh water, .... 50 apparently harmless in Holland, 63 in Hungary, ... 63 MARSHALL, JOHN, on cholera from effects of, ..."

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