recurrent fever

1. 1.

   marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months

   Synonymsrelapsing fever

   Broaderinfectious disease

Questions about recurrent fever

What does recurrent fever mean?

recurrent fever means "marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months".

What is another word for recurrent fever?

Close synonyms include relapsing fever. 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 recurrent fever a common word?

recurrent 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.