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noun
A viral, often fatal infection characterized by a high fever, encephalitis, diarrhea, vomiting, and severe bleeding from bodily orifices.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: green monkey disease, Marburg fever, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus disease
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Marburg hemorrhagic fever, green monkey disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hemorrhagic fever, haemorrhagic fever, viral hemorrhagic fever, viral haemorrhagic fever, VHF
History
After the German city of Marburg.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
