English Explanatory Dictionary

breakbone fever

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. dengue fever.

Word forms

breakbone fever

Etymology

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

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