Definition of Mediterranean fever

1. Noun. Infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache.


Definition of Mediterranean fever

1. Noun. (disease) familial Mediterranean fever ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Mediterranean fever

1. See Familial Mediterranean Fever. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediterranean Fever

meditaters
meditates
meditating
meditation
meditational
meditations
meditatist
meditatists
meditative
meditatively
meditativeness
meditator
meditators
mediterranean anaemia
mediterranean anchovy
mediterranean fever (current term)
mediterranean islands
mediterranean region
mediterraneous
medium
medium-chain
medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase
medium-chain triglyceride
medium-sized
medium-term
medium artery
medium dead
medium dry
medium frequency
medium of exchange

Literary usage of Mediterranean fever

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

1. The Geography of Disease by Frank Gerard Clemow (1903)
"mediterranean fever. (MALTA FEVER, ROCK FEVER, NEAPOLITAN FEVER, UNDULANT FEVER. ... mediterranean fever has been defined as follows:—An endemic, ..."

2. Mediterranean, Malta Or Undulant Fever by M. Louis Hughes (1897)
"T., admitted to hospital in Malta for mediterranean fever on August 2nd, 1895, and discharged to duty 88 days after. Seven days later he was readmitted for ..."

3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1906)
"Sir Patrick Manson has not much faith in the serum diagnosis of mediterranean fever. He was asked to see a gentleman who some months before had been ..."

4. Folia Haematologica: Internationales Magazin für klinische und (1907)
"C. Kennedy, Bacterial Examinations of Cases of mediterranean fever. ... 480) EA Shaw, The Ambulatory Type of Case in mediterranean fever. ..."

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