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trench fever

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English

Syllables
trench fever
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An acute infectious disease, caused by the microorganism Rickettsia quintana (now Bartonella quintana) and transmitted by the louse Pediculus humanus, that affected very many soldiers during World War I.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

trench fevers (plural)

Synonyms

five-day fever

Questions

What does trench fever mean?
An acute infectious disease, caused by the microorganism Rickettsia quintana (now Bartonella quintana) and transmitted by the louse Pediculus humanus, that affected very many soldiers during World War I.

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