haemorrhagic fever

Questions about haemorrhagic fever

What does haemorrhagic fever mean?

haemorrhagic fever means "a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage".

What is another word for haemorrhagic fever?

Close synonyms include hemorrhagic fever, viral hemorrhagic fever, viral haemorrhagic fever, VHF. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is haemorrhagic fever a common word?

haemorrhagic fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.