- snail fever
- noun Etymology: from the snails which serve as intermediate hosts to the schistosomes causing the disease Date: 1947 schistosomiasis
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snail fever
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snail fever — n SCHISTOSOMIASIS … Medical dictionary
snail fever — n. SCHISTOSOMIASIS … English World dictionary
snail fever — noun : schistosomiasis * * * schistosomiasis. [1945 50; so called because the parasites that cause the disease are carried by snails] * * * snail fever, = schistosomiasis. (Cf. ↑schistosomiasis) ╂[so called because it is caused by parasitic… … Useful english dictionary
snail fever — snail′ fe′ver n. pat schistosomiasis • Etymology: 1945–50 … From formal English to slang
snail fever — schistosomiasis. [1945 50; so called because the parasites that cause the disease are carried by snails] * * * … Universalium
Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… … Medical dictionary
malarial fever — Synonyms and related words: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black… … Moby Thesaurus
rheumatic fever — Synonyms and related words: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black… … Moby Thesaurus
scarlet fever — Synonyms and related words: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black… … Moby Thesaurus
spotted fever — Synonyms and related words: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black… … Moby Thesaurus
