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undulant fever

noun

, Pathology.


undulant fever

noun

  1. another name for brucellosis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of undulant fever1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Word History and Origins

Origin of undulant fever1

C19: so called because the fever symptoms are intermittent
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Example Sentences

In humans, a brucellosis infection can cause undulant fever and fatigue.

Yellowstone bison are known to carry brucellosis, a disease that can cause pregnant cattle to abort and infect humans with undulant fever, which causes fever, weakness and muscle pain.

But unlike the undulant fever that had afflicted him more than a decade prior, he didn’t get better.

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