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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.
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
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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