'Famine fever' definitions:
Definition of 'Famine fever'
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- Famine \Fam"ine\, n. [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr. ????? want, need, Skr. h[=a]ni loss, lack, h[=a] to leave.] General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. "Worn with famine." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- There was a famine in the land. --Gen. xxvi. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Famine fever (Med.), typhus fever. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'famine fever'
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- Typhus \Ty"phus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? smoke, cloud, stupor arising from fever; akin to ? to smoke, Skr. dh?pa smoke.] (Med.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'famine fever'
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- Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. [1913 Webster]
- Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochaete) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever. [1913 Webster]