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Spotted fever   /spˈɑtəd fˈivər/   Listen
adjective
Spotted  adj.  Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther."
Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); so called because its bark falls off in spots.






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"Spotted fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... cerebrum, is called spinal meningitis, or cerebro-spinal meningitis, etc., according to the part of the spine or brain involved in the inflammation. Meningitis is a characteristic and result of so-called spotted fever, and by many it is deemed ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye

... to the spine, or cerebrum, is called spinal meningitis, or cerebro-spinal meningitis, etc., according to the part of the spine or brain involved in the inflammation. Meningitis is a characteristic and result of so-called spotted fever, and by many it is deemed identical ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye

... have seen on the grassy banks lately. Not that I would care to eat gopher myself, for they look like prairie-dog, and I never did like prairie-dog to eat. Besides, they tell bad stories about these mountain gophers; I've heard that the spotted fever of the mountains, a very deadly disease, is only found in a gopher country; so I'm very glad you did not have to resort to that sort ...
— The Young Alaskans in the Rockies • Emerson Hough

... top of his load awoke in the bottom of a ravine with a shattered arm, a dead horse, and a ruined log-sled. Bill's foot was mashed by a rolling log; and last, and most far-reaching in its effect, the cook contracted spotted fever and died ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx

... who is in some [Probably meant for handsome in the MS.] mourning for her brother Mr. Saml. Crewe, who died yesterday of the spotted fever. ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys



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