LASSA FEVER

Meaning of LASSA FEVER in English

[ 'lasə ]

■ noun an acute and often fatal viral disease occurring chiefly in West Africa.

Origin

1970s: named after the village of Lassa , in NW Nigeria, where it was first reported.

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LASSA FEVER — noun Etymology: Lassa, village in Nigeria Date: 1970 a disease especially of Africa that is caused by an arenavirus (species …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LASSA FEVER — ˌlasə- noun Usage: usually capitalized L Etymology: from Lassa , village in Nigeria : a disease especially of Africa that …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LASSA FEVER — /lah"seuh/ , Pathol. a highly contagious viral disease, largely confined to central West Africa, characterized by fever, difficulty in swallowing, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LASSA FEVER — noun Etymology: Lassa, village in Nigeria Date: 1970 : a disease especially of Africa that is caused by an arenavirus …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LASSA FEVER — [Las.sa fever] n [Lassa, village in Nigeria] (1970): a virus disease esp. of Africa that is characterized by a high …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LASSA FEVER — / ˈlæsə fiːvə(r); NAmE / noun [ U ] a serious disease, usually caught from rats and found especially in …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LASSA FEVER — n. an acute and often fatal febrile viral disease of tropical Africa. [Lassa in Nigeria, where first reported]
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LASSA FEVER — n. an acute and often fatal febrile viral disease of tropical Africa. [ Lassa in Nigeria, where first reported ]
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LASSA FEVER — n. an acute and often fatal febrile viral disease of tropical Africa. Etymology: Lassa in Nigeria, where first reported
Oxford English vocab
LASSA FEVER — (медицина) ласская лихорадка
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
LASSA FEVER — (медицина) ласская лихорадка
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
LASSA FEVER — мед. ласская лихорадка
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
LASSA FEVER — мед. ласская лихорадка
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
LASSA FEVER — мед. ласская лихорадка
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
LASSA FEVER — (геморрагическая) лихорадка Ласса, Ласса-лихорадка
Новый Англо-Русский медицинский словарь
LASSA FEVER — (медицина) ласская лихорадка
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
LASSA FEVER — (медицина) ласская лихорадка
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LASSA FEVER — Pronunciation: ' la-s ə - Function: noun Etymology: Lassa, village in Nigeria Date: 1970 : a disease especially of Africa …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FEVER — I or pyrexia Abnormally high body temperature or a disease characterized by it. It most often occurs with infection . …
Английский словарь Британика
FEVER — I. ˈfēvə(r) noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fēfer, fēfor, from Latin febris; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FEVER — (n.) A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of …
Английский словарь Webster
LASSA — /lah"seuh, -sah, las"euh/ , n. Older Spelling. Lhasa.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FEVER — — feverless , adj. /fee"veuhr/ , n. 1. an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FEVER — I. ˈfē-vər noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fēfer, from Latin febris Date: before 12th century 1. a. : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FEVER — vt to put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip. 2. fever ·noun excessive excitement of …
Webster English vocab
FEVER — [fe.ver] n [ME, fr. OE fefer, fr. L febris] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a rise of body temperature above the …
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FEVER
Britannica English vocabulary
LASSA — Lassa BrE AmE ˈlæs ə ˈlɑːs- ▶ ˌ Lassa ˈ fever BrE AmE
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FEVER — fever BrE AmE ˈfiːv ə AmE \ - ə r ▷ fever|ed d ▷ fever|s z ▶ ˈ fever pitch, …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FEVER — / ˈfiːvə(r); NAmE / noun 1. [ C , U ] a medical condition in which a person has a …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FEVER — fe ‧ ver /ˈfiːvə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 900-1000 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: febris ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FEVER — n. & v. --n. 1 a an abnormally high body temperature, often with delirium etc. b a disease characterized by …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FEVER — n. & v. n. 1 a an abnormally high body temperature, often with delirium etc. b a disease characterized by …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FEVER — n. & v. --n. 1. a an abnormally high body temperature, often with delirium etc. b a disease characterized by …
Oxford English vocab
FEVER — ( fevers) 1. If you have a fever when you are ill, your body temperature is higher than usual and …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FEVER — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cabin fever dengue fever fever blister fever pitch (= a very excited level ) ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FEVER — [noun] - a medical condition in which the body temperature is higher than usual and the heart beats very fast, …
Cambridge English vocab
FEVER — n. undulant fever Mediterranean fever Malta fever dandy fever breakbone fever typhoid fever hay fever hemorrhagic fever swine fever glandular …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
FEVER — Synonyms and related words : abscess, agitation, ague, amok, anemia, animal heat, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attack, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FEVER — noun 1 high temperature ADJECTIVE ▪ high , raging ▪ She had a very high ~. ▪ mild , slight …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
FEVER — n. 25B6; noun he developed fever : FEVERISHNESS, high temperature, febrility; Medicine pyrexia; informal temperature. a fever of excitement : …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FEVER — noun BAD : I'd caught a cold and had a high fever. GOOD : I'd caught a cold and had …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
FEVER — 1. сущ. 1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FEVER — fever.ogg 1. ʹfi:və n 1. 1> жар, лихорадочное состояние he has a high fever - у него сильный жар /высокая …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FEVER — fever сущ.1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, to …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
FEVER — 1. ʹfi:və n 1. 1> жар, лихорадочное состояние he has a high fever - у него сильный жар /высокая температура/ …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
FEVER — 1. сущ. 1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
FEVER — 1. сущ. 1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, to develop …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
FEVER — лихорадка - Aden fever - African tick fever - Assam fever - black fever - blackwater fever - bouquet fever - Bwamba fever - camp fever - Colorado tick …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
FEVER — лихорадка - Aden fever - African tick fever - Assam fever - black fever - blackwater fever - bouquet fever …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
FEVER — 1. сущ. 1) жар, лихорадка; какое-л. заболевание, основным симптомом которого является очень высокая температура to come down with a fever, …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
OPPENHEIM, LASSA FRANCIS LAWRENCE — born March 30, 1858, Windecken, near Frankfurt am Main died Oct. 7, 1919, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng. German jurist and teacher …
Britannica English vocabulary
HEMORRHAGIC FEVER — noun Date: 1948 any of a diverse group of virus diseases (as Lassa fever and Ebola) that are usually transmitted …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ARENAVIRUS — noun Etymology: New Latin, ultimately from Latin arena sand + New Latin virus; from the fine granules seen in cross …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HEMORRHAGIC FEVER — noun : any of a diverse group of virus diseases (as Lassa fever and Ebola) that are usually transmitted by …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ARENAVIRUS — ə¦rēnə¦vīrəs, ¦erənə-, ¦ärənə- noun Etymology: New Latin, alteration of arenovirus , from Latin arena sand + New Latin -o- + …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LHASA — /lah"seuh, -sah, las"euh/ , n. a city in and the capital of Tibet, in the SE part: sacred city of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HEMORRHAGIC FEVER — Date: 1948 : any of a diverse group of virus diseases (as Lassa fever and Ebola) that are usually transmitted …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ARENAVIRUS — noun Etymology: New Latin, ultimately from Latin arena sand + New Latin virus ; from the fine granules seen in …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ARENAVIRUS — [ ə'ri:nəˌvʌɪrəs ] ■ noun Medicine any of a group of RNA viruses (e.g. that causing Lassa fever) appearing to …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SIDEBAR - PROMED-MAIL — by John P. Woodall Ebola, hantaviruses, toxic Escherichia coli, flesh-eating bacteria, chicken flu. The world needs to know about outbreaks …
Britannica English vocabulary
VIRUS — n. 25B6; noun . See list. Viruses actinophage morbillivirus adenovirus myxovirus alphavirus oncornavirus arbovirus orbivirus arenavirus papillomavirus bacteriophage papovavirus baculovirus …
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ILLNESS — n. 25B6; noun SICKNESS, disease, ailment, complaint, malady, affliction, infection, indisposition; ill health, poor health, infirmity; informal bug, virus; Brit. …
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