yellow fever
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Noun (1)
- caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquitoSynonyms: yellow jackblack vomitType of infectious disease
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Yellow fever
Medicine, a malignant, contagious, febrile disease of warm climates, attended with jaundice, producing a yellow color of the skin, and with the black vomit. See Black vomit, in the Vocabulary.
From the entry Yellow.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54