AllWords.com Home

English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search

  
Definitions
dengue fever Twit Definition of dengue fever Share Definition of dengue fever on Facebook Digg:Definition of dengue fever! stumble Definition of dengue fever Bookmark Definition of dengue fever on Delicious submit Definition of dengue fever to reddit Bookmark Definition of dengue fever
noun 
  1. (pathology) An acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease endemic to the tropics, caused by any of four species of the virus genus wikipedia:Flavivirus, Flavivirus, and primarily transmitted to humans from mosquitoes, though human-to-human transmission is also well documented.
Etymology: Via Spanish, a corruption of Swahili ki denga pepo, meaning "cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit".

     Source Definition of dengue fever
  

 Find:
  Words Starting With:
  Words Ending With:
  Words Containing:
  Words That Match:

 
 Translate Into:
  
Dutch   French   German
  
Italian   Spanish
    Show results per page.

Google
 

Browse the Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 
  

   
Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License
Allwords Copyright 1998-2009 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.