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scarlet fever

noun

1 scarlet fever

An acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash.

synonym: scarlatina.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: roodvonk, scarlatina, scharlakenkoorts, vlekkoorts
Polish: płonica, szkarlatyna


Moby thesaurus: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever ... show more.

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