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Trench fever is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TRENCH FEVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Trench fever

Trench fever (also known as "Five day fever", "Quintan fever" (febris Quintana in Latin), "Urban trench fever") is a moderately serious disease transmitted by body lice. It infected armies in Flanders, France, Poland, Galicia, Italy, Salonika, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt in World War I (three noted sufferers being the authors J.R.R. Tolkien, A. A. Milne, and C.S. Lewis), and the German army in Russia during World War I. From 1915 to 1918 between one-fifth and one-third of all British troops reported ill had trench fever while about one-fifth of ill German and Austrian troops had the disease. The disease persists among the homeless. Outbreaks have been documented, for example, in Seattle and Baltimore in the United States among injection drug users and in Marseille, France, and Burundi. Trench fever is also called Wolhynia fever, shin bone fever, quintan fever, five-day fever, Meuse fever, His disease and His-Werner disease (after Wilhelm His, Jr. and Heinrich Werner). The disease is caused by the bacterium Bartonella quintana (older names: Rochalimea quintana, Rickettsia quintana), found in the stomach walls of the body louse.

Definition of trench fever in the English dictionary

The definition of trench fever in the dictionary is an acute infectious disease characterized by fever and muscular aches and pains, caused by the microorganism Rickettsia quintana and transmitted by the bite of a body louse.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRENCH FEVER

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trench
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trench knife
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trenchancy
trenchant
trenchantly
Trenchard
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trend line

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRENCH FEVER

African swine fever
cabin fever
cat-scratch fever
dengue fever
east coast fever
ever
fever
gold fever
haemorrhagic fever
hay fever
jungle fever
Mediterranean fever
Q fever
recurrent fever
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
scarlet fever
spotted fever
spring fever
swine fever
typhoid fever
yellow fever

Synonyms and antonyms of trench fever in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «trench fever» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRENCH FEVER

Find out the translation of trench fever to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of trench fever from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «trench fever» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

战壕热
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fiebre de las trincheras
570 millions of speakers

English

trench fever
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खाई बुखार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حمى الخنادق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

траншеи лихорадка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

febre das trincheiras
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গর্ত জ্বর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fièvre des tranchées
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Demam parit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Grabenfieber
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

塹壕熱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

트렌치 발열
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Demam trench
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sốt mương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அகழி காய்ச்சல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खंदक ताप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Fıçı ateşi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

febbre trincea
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gorączka wykop
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

траншеї лихоманка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

febră șanț
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πυρετό τάφρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sloot koors
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dike feber
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

grøft feber
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of trench fever

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRENCH FEVER»

The term «trench fever» is normally little used and occupies the 145.860 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRENCH FEVER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about trench fever

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRENCH FEVER»

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Trench fever: Report of Commission, Medical Research ...
In spirochaetal relapsing fever the onset, distribution of pains, and rash are somewhat similar to those in trench fever, but in relapsing fever the course of the fever is prolonged and high, and the fall by crisis on the sixth or seventh day, with a ...
American National Red Cross. Medical Research Committee. Committee on Trench Fever, Richard Pearson Strong, 1918
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Trench Fever
Christopher Moore. one to discover that there are pavingstones under the tangle of beams, stones and scrap iron. This – here – was a street. A sign erected by theCommonwealth War Graves Commissiondirected meout of the village onto a ...
Christopher Moore, 2013
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Tropical Pathology:
Epidemiology Trench fever is caused by Rochalimaea quintana which, though closely related to the rickettsias, is distinguished by its extracellular habitat and its ability to grow on artificial media. Humans, in whom the causative agent can ...
T. G. Ashworth, 1995
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Journal of the American Medical Association
NUMBER 11 The trench fever rash may be mistaken for typhoid rose spots, if the evolution of the individual macules and the relation of their appearance to the other manifestations of the disease are not carefully recorded. The neck pains may ...
‎1919
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Trench Fever: Report of Commission, Medical Research ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
‎2012
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Ioachim's Lymph Node Pathology
B. quintana, the agent responsible for trench fever, may cause central nervous system lesions, lytic bone lesions, and endocarditis and has been occasionally isolated from cases of BA. However, these patients are more likely to be homeless ...
Harry L. Ioachim, L. Jeffrey Medeiros, 2009
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Infectious Diseases: Bornholm Disease, Nocardiosis, Trench ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, Books Llc, 2010
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The Medical Response to the Trench Diseases in World War One
An exploration of how doctors in the First World War responded to the trench diseases - trench fever, trench nephritis and trench foot.
Robert Leslie Atenstaedt, 2011
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Blasting & Bombardiering
My days with this battery came to a close when I contracted trench-fever- — whatever that may be. All I knew was that suddenly I felt exceedingly unwell, was advised to go and lie down, and was accommodated with a couch upon a clay shelf ...
Wyndham Lewis, 1967
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Reemergence of Established Pathogens in the 21st Century
Although micro-agglutination and complement-fixation techniques have been used in the past to define the epidemiology of Trench fever (Kostrzewski, 1949), methods widely used nowadays includes immunofluorescence, enzyme-linked ...
I.W. Fong, Karl Drlica, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRENCH FEVER»

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How CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien responded to 'environmental …
Millions of soldiers already had perished in the trenches and barbed wire and ... of the Somme, but contracted trench fever and was taken out of harm's way. «CNN, Jul 15»
2
Head and body lice splice their identical genes differently
... while head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) are known to be harmless, body lice (P. humanus corporis) transmit bacteria that cause typhus and trench fever. «New Scientist, Jul 15»
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Study Asks if Bed Bugs Can Carry Trench Fever
International researchers are examining if Bartonella quintana, the etiologic agent of trench fever and other human diseases, can be carried by bed bugs. «PCT Magazine, Jul 15»
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The life and murder of Claude Tozer
He eventually recovered, and after another bout of trench fever was promoted to Major. His leadership abilities earned Tozer a Distinguished Service Order ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, May 15»
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War widow gives Prince Charles a history lesson at Gallipoli
He returned to Australia, but after contracting 'trench fever' and meningitis overseas, he remained sick. "My dad, the war never ended for him," Mrs Trevithick ... «ABC Local, May 15»
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The Classy Rise of the Trench Coat
The trench coat wasn't exactly invented for use during the war that gave it its name ..... In the modern context, “trench fever” was about selling luxury trench coats. «Smithsonian, May 15»
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Vic Cumberland, the footballer who proved there's life after 40
... on the front line in France, having convalesced in England on three occasions after suffering shrapnel wounds to the knee and wrist and a bout of trench fever. «The Age, May 15»
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The Melbourne company responsible for iconic Digger uniforms
In the trenches and on the battlefields, the uniform was as vital for survival as any weapon. ... Soldiers would use hot irons to kill the lice that caused trench fever. «Herald Sun, Apr 15»
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More Diggers identified in Cheops Pyramid photo taken in Egypt …
It was chronic trench fever that forced his return to Australia and returned to Fremantle in 1918, marrying and having three children. But his granddaughter, Jill ... «NEWS.com.au, Apr 15»
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Madagascar in the Season of Lightning
... which in some varieties, causes cat scratch and trench fever in humans. We found the same types of Bartonella spp. in Eidolon dupreanum fruit bats and their ... «NatGeo News Watch, Mar 15»

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