splenic fever

1. 1.

   a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people

   Synonymsanthrax

   Broaderzoonosis

Questions about splenic fever

What does splenic fever mean?

splenic fever means "a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people".

What is another word for splenic fever?

Close synonyms include anthrax. 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 splenic fever a common word?

splenic 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.