Definition of Rock 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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Fever

Roche limit
Roche limits
Rochelle
Rochelle powder
Rochelle salt
Rochelle salts
Rocher's sign
Rochester
Rochon prism
Rock
Rock Cornish
Rock Cornish hen
Rock Island
Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Springs
Rock fever
Rock of Gibraltar
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Republican
Rockefellers
Rocketshipper
Rocketshippers
Rockford
Rockies
Rockingham
Rockingham podocarp
Rockstone
Rockwell
Rockwell Kent
Rockwellesque

Literary usage of Rock fever

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... 506 rock fever —ROCK ISLAND rock fever. See MALTA FEVER. ROCK-FISH, the name of several fishes usually found about reefs and on rocky bottom. ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"It has accordingly received a variety of specific names—" rock fever,' " Mediterranean remittent fever," " gastric remittent fever," ..."

3. Mediterranean, Malta Or Undulant Fever by M. Louis Hughes (1897)
"... of "rock fever." He says that he was "led to believe that the bulk of the cases diller in no essential respect from enteric fever as it is met with ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: designed for the use of by William Osler (1892)
"The identity of Malta and the so-called rock fever of Gibraltar is, however, by no means certain. In the number of the Journal referred to, Surgeon Perry ..."

5. A Popular History of Gibraltar, Its Institutions, and Its Neighbourhood on by Gilbard (George James) (1881)
"rock fever is occasionally prevalent among them, and curiously enough, is more common in the regiments which are quartered in the coolest situations, ..."

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