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Breakbone fever

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    dengue fever. uncountable
  2. 2
    an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints wordnet

Etymology

Coinage attributed to Benjamin Rush because of the symptoms of myalgia and arthralgia.

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