WordNet
n. successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria [syn: ague]
Usage examples of "chills and fever".
Clay Baldwin seemed in fair shape to travel as well, having had a heap of fight knocked out of him by that long siege of off-and-on chills and fever.
He had alternating bouts of chills and fever, and a foul taste in his mouth.
He spent many hours tending the girl through the six stages of the disease, from the high fever and floating pulse of the Greater Yang, through the Lesser Yang and Yang Brightness, with chills and fever coming alternately.
Among them are the chills and fever the mosquito brings, the swelling of the limbs one gets from an infestation of certain worms, the closure of the bowels, the clap, the spotted death, leprosy, and altruism.
It begins as coughing, sneezing, chills and fever, then becomes a wasting disease.