Crossword clues for dengue
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dengue \Den"gue\ (d[e^][ng]"g[asl]), n. [See Note, below.] (Med.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Note: This disease, when it first appeared in the British
West India Islands, was called the dandy fever, from
the stiffness and constraint which it grave to the
limbs and body. The Spaniards of the neighboring
islands mistook the term for their word dengue,
denoting prudery, which might also well express
stiffness, and hence the term dengue became, as last,
the name of the disease.
--Tully.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828, from West Indian Spanish dengue, from an African source, perhaps Swahili dinga "seizure, cramp," form influenced by Spanish dengue "prudery" (perhaps because sufferers walk stiffly and erect due to painful joints). The disease is African, introduced to the West Indies 1827.
Wiktionary
n. An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle pain and joint pain.
WordNet
n. an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints [syn: dengue fever, dandy fever, breakbone fever]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "dengue".
Four year olds dead of malaria, of typhus, of dengue fever, of all the horrible things that went on tormenting Africa no matter what anybody did.
And the first teams for dengue are already deployed in Manila and Brasilia.
After Midway an attack of dengue fever had laid her low, and Carter Aster had visited her every day and had seen to her needs of food and medicine, and one thing had led to another.
He was inoculated against the local and the artificially introduced strains of malaria, yellow jack, typhus, and dengue fever.
It was an Africa of AIDS and malnutrition and drought and malaria and staph infections and dengue fever and endless futile wars, an Africa drenched in savagery.
After caring for the other heartworm-infested dogs, I soon became very sick myself, contracting dengue fever, also called breakbone fever.
Finding cures for cancer, sleeping sickness, treatments for chagres fever, dengue disease, tularemia, and things like that.
Malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea, dysentery, dengue fever, and schistosomiasis (bilharzia) are prevalent.
Your work with the CDC during the dengue fever outbreak in Puerto Rico three years ago was a terrific public relations coup.
Even on those days when she had been suffering the break-bone pains of dengue fever and, in accordance with her doctor's orders, should have remained in bed, her carriage had always been parked in its accustomed place overlooking the scaffold.
Because of skill and a little luck he had never caught anything but a bout of dengue fever, bad enough but not fatal.
Yet he felt more apprehension now than he'd felt even in a Raruana village, piled with corpses infected with dengue fever, or during the outbreak of bubonic plague in the Sierra Madre Occidental.