lyme disease

1. 1.

   an acute inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling and fever; caused by bacteria carried by the bite of a deer tick

   SynonymsLyme arthritis

   Broaderzoonosis

Questions about lyme disease

What does lyme disease mean?

lyme disease means "an acute inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling and fever; caused by bacteria carried by the bite of a deer tick".

What is another word for lyme disease?

Close synonyms include Lyme arthritis. 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 lyme disease a common word?

lyme disease 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.