| QF | quality factor; query fever; quick freeze; relative biological effectiveness |
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| RF | radial fiber; radio frequency; receptive field; regurgitant fraction; Reitland-Franklin [unit]; rela... |
| Rh | F rheumatic fever |
| RMSF | Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
| RVF | renal vascular failure; Rift Valley fever; right ventricular failure; right visual field |
| Sennetsu fever | A disease of man in western Japan caused by the rickettsia Ehrlichia sennetsu and characterised by fever, malaise, anorexia, backache, and lymphadenopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hospital fever | <infectious disease> A severe acute disease with prolonged high fever up to 40 |
| septic fever | Systemic disease associated with the presence and persistence of pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins in the blood. Synonym: blood poisoning. See: bacteraemia. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (11 Jan 1998) |
| Pym's fever | Influenza-like febrile viral disease caused by several members of the bunyaviridae family and transmitted mostly by the bloodsucking sandfly phlebotomus papatasii. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pyogenic fever | <microbiology> The invasion of bloodstream by pyogenic organisms. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (18 Nov 1997) |
| human scarlet fever immune serum | Scarlet fever convalescent serum, obtained from healthy persons who have survived an attack of scarlet fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| seven-day fever | A fever resembling dengue occurring at the end of the summer in India. Synonym: seven-day fever. Synonym: hasamiyami. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shin bone fever | A louse-borne disease first recognised in the trenches of world war i, again a major problem in the military in world war II, seen endemically in mexico, n. Africa, e, europe, and elsewhere. The cause, rochalimaea quintana, is an unusual rickettsia that multiplies in the gut of the body louse. Transmission to people can occur by rubbing infected louse feces into abraded (scuffed) skin or conjunctiva (whites of the eyes). Onset of symptoms is sudden, with high fever, headache, back and leg pain and a fleeting rash. Recovery takes a month or more. Relapses are common. Also called trench fever, wolhynia fever, quintan fever, five-day fever, meuse fever, his' disease, his-werner disease, werner-his disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ship fever | <disease, microbiology> An acute infectious disease characterised by high fever, a skin eruption and severe headache. In the past, typhus has been a disease of war, famine or catastrophe, being spread by lice, ticks or fleas. The infecting organism is Rickettsia prowazekii, sensitive to sulpha drugs or tetracycline. (27 Sep 1997) |
| shipping fever | In horses, synonymous with pinkeye or influenza, in cattle, a common syndrome seen especially during or after shipping in cold weather or other stressful circumstances, manifested by acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract usually terminating in pneumonia; associated with parainfluenza virus type 3, although some of the infections are associated with Pasteurella. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shipping fever virus | Parainfluenza virus type 3. See: parainfluenza viruses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shoddy fever | Febrile disease occurring in workers in shoddy factories, with cough, dyspnea and headache, caused by inhalation of dust. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simian haemorrhagic fever | A highly fatal disease of macaque monkeys caused by the simian haemorrhagic fever virus and characterised by fever, facial oedema, anorexia, adipsia, skin petechiae, diarrhoea, haemorrhages, and death. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simian haemorrhagic fever virus | An arterivirus causing simian haemorrhagic fever in macaque monkeys. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sindbis fever | A febrile illness of humans in Africa, Australia, and other countries, characterised by arthralgia, rash, and malaise; caused by the Sindbis virus, a member of the family Togaviridae, and transmitted by culicine mosquitoes. (05 Mar 2000) |