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noun
An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: swamp fever
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: zoonosis, zoonotic disease
Narrower terms: canicola fever, Weil's disease
History
From Leptospira + -osis.
Across languages
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
