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Definition of Dengue
1. Noun. An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints.
Definition of Dengue
1. n. A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Definition of Dengue
1. Noun. (pathology) An acute febrile disease of the tropics caused by a flavivirus, transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dengue
1. a tropical disease [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dengue
1. Tropical disease caused by a flavivirus (one of the arboviruses), transmitted by mosquitoes. A more serious complication is dengue shock syndrome, a haemorrhagic fever probably caused by an immune complex hypersensitivity after re exposure. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dengue
Literary usage of Dengue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"A Comparison of dengue and Influenza.—-M. de Brun, who is Professor of Medicine
at Beyrout, has had ample opportunities for observing epidemics of dengue or ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"that Culex fatigans is able to convey the infection of dengue fever. ...
transmitted dengue in two apparently successful cases which were bitten by ..."
3. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"dengue is a disease of special interest to the public health officer on ...
From a review of the subject it would seem safe to assert that dengue is an ..."
4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"Intravenous inoculation of unfiltered dengue blood. 5. Intravenous inoculation
of filtered ... Experimental transmission of dengue by the mosquito. 7. ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1886)
"This was followed by one on THE ETIOLOGY OF dengue, The epidemic of dengue which
prevailed throughout the State of Texas during the fall of 1885 was unusual ..."
6. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"dengue. This disease frequently appears in epidemic form throughout the tropics
and subtropical regions. It is marked by sudden appearance, acute fever, ..."
7. Tropical diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1906)
"dengue. Definition.—dengue—derived, according to Hirsch, from the Spanish equivalent
of " dandy "—ia the name applied to a specific and highly infectious ..."
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