trench fever

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   marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice

   Broaderrickettsial disease

Questions about trench fever

What does trench fever mean?

trench fever means "marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice".

Is trench fever a common word?

trench 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.