tick fever

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   caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks

   SynonymsRocky Mountain spotted fevermountain fever

   Broaderspotted fever

Questions about tick fever

What does tick fever mean?

tick fever means "caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks".

What is another word for tick fever?

Close synonyms include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, mountain 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 tick fever a common word?

tick 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.