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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various often fatal infectious diseases, such as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, characterized by skin eruptions and caused by rickettsia that are transmitted by ticks and mites.
  2. n. An epidemic form of cerebrospinal meningitis.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pathology any of various diseases causing fever and spots on the skin

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Med.) a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin

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  1. rickettsiosis
  1. rickettsial disease

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  1. tick fever
  1. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  1. mountain fever

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  1. tick fever
  2. tick-fever
  1. cerebro-spinal meningitis
  2. wood tick
  1. spotted fever
  2. rickettsia
  1. tick
  2. dermacentor variabilis
  1. genus rickettsia
  2. American dog tick
  1. piroplasmosis

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