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Definition of Glandular fever

1. Noun. An acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing.

Definition of Glandular fever

1. Noun. (pathology) infectious mononucleosis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Glandular fever

1. Self limiting disorder of lymphoid tissue caused by infection with Epstein Barr virus (infectious mononucleosis). Characterised by the appearance of many large lymphoblasts in the circulation. (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glandular Fever

Literary usage of Glandular fever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"ACUTE glandular fever. BY GLENN I. JONES, MD, CLINICAL ASSISTANT IN THE ... Acute glandular fever is an infectious disease developing, as a rule, ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"glandular fever Definition.—An infections disease of children, developing, as a rule, without premonitory signs, and characterized by slight redness of the ..."

3. Differential diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"glandular fever is a diagnosis to be made only when no other causes can be found either for the adenitis or the fever. Such an adenitis is common enough as ..."

4. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1901)
"BELLAIRE glandular fever may be briefly defined as an acute general infection ... Whether glandular fever is or is not entitled to be classed as a distinct ..."

5. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1914)
"glandular fever glandular fever is seen in children usually after the first year. The disease is due to a local infection the nature of which is unknown. ..."

6. The Diagnostics of internal medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"glandular fever An infectious disease, sometimes epidemic—of unknown origin- affecting children (usually from 5 to 8 years of age), and characterized by ..."

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