| FMF | familial Mediterranean fever; fetal movement felt; flow microfluorometry; forced midexpiratory flow |
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| FUO | fever of unknown origin |
| HBF | hand blood flow; hemispheric blood flow; hemoglobinuric bilious fever; hepatic blood flow; hypothala... |
| HERS | Health Evaluation and Referral Service; hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome |
| HFD | hemorrhagic fever of deer; high-fiber diet; high forceps delivery; hospital field director; human fa... |
| wolhynia fever | Trench 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 outer layer of the whites of the eyes (conjunctiva). 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 shin bone fever, quintan fever, five-day fever, meuse fever, his' disease, his-werner disease, werner-his disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Congolian red fever | An acute infectious disease with fever, headache, and rash, all quite similar to, but milder than, epidemic typhus, caused by a related microoganism, rickettsia typhi (mooseri), transmitted to humans by rat fleas (xenopsylla cheopis). The animal reservoir includes rats, mice and other rodents. Murine typhus occurs sporadically worldwide but is more prevalent in congested rat-infested urban areas. Also known as endemic typhus, rat-flea typhus; urban typhus of malaya). (12 Dec 1998) |
| wound fever | Elevation of temperature following an injury. Synonym: symptomatic fever, wound fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mumu fever | Samoan term for elephantoid fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continued fever | An obsolete term for a febrile illness without the intermittency of malaria. Many cases were typhoid fever, but included many types of febrile illnesses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| polka fever | Tropical disease caused by a flavivirus (one of the arboviruses), transmitted by mosquitoes. A more serious complication is dengue shock syndrome, a haemorrhagic fever probably caused by an immune complex hypersensitivity after re exposure. (18 Nov 1997) |
| polyleptic fever | A fever occurring in two or more paroxysms; e.g., smallpox, relapsing fever, intermittent fever. Compare: monoleptic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| polymer fume fever | An occupational disease marked by fever, pain in the chest, and cough caused by the inhalation of fumes given off by a plastic, polytetrafluorethylene, when heated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cotton-mill fever | <chest medicine> Exposures to cotton dust during the production of yarns, linen and rope can produce chronic obstructive lung disease (after 10 years). Early symptoms include chest tightness. Treatment includes bronchodilators and removal from work environment. (21 Mar 1998) |
| Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever | A form of haemorrhagic fever distinct from Omsk haemorrhagic fever, occurring in central Russia, transmitted by species of the tick Hyalomma, and caused by Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, a member of the Bunyaviridae family; horses are the chief reservoir of human infection; characterised by abrupt onset, high fever, headache, myalgia, widespread petechial haemorrhagic lesions, gastrointestinal bleeding, high fatality rate. Synonym: African tick fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus | A virus of the genus Nairovirus (family Bunyaviridae) from Africa and the southern USSR, carried by ticks (Hyalomma and Amblyomma) and found in human blood; the cause of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crimean fever | A febrile disease of the mediterranean area, the crimea, africa, and india, caused by infection with rickettsia conorii. (12 Dec 1998) |
| haematuric bilious fever | Haematuria due to renal lesions caused by the malarial haematozoon, Plasmodium falciparum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemoglobinuric fever | A condition, now uncommon, resulting from Plasmodium falciparum infection (malignant tertian malaria with severe haemolysis); frequently seen in Caucasians after interrupted treatment with quinine. Synonym: blackwater fever, haemoglobinuric fever, West African fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhagic fever | A syndrome that occurs in perhaps 20-40% of infections by a number of different viruses of the families Arenaviridae (Lassa fever, Bolivian haemorrhagic fever, Argentinean haemorrhagic fever), Bunyaviridae (Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever), Flaviviridae (Dengue haemorrhagic fever, Omsk haemorrhagic fever), Filoviridae (Ebola fever, Marburg virus disease), etc. Some types of haemorrhagic fever are tick-borne, others mosquito-borne, and some seem to be zoonoses; clinical manifestations are high fever, scattered petechiae, gastrointestinal tract and other organ bleeding, hypotension, and shock; kidney damage may be severe, especially in Korean haemorrhagic fever and neurologic signs may appear, especially in the Argentinean-Bolivian types. Five types of haemorrhagic fever are transmissible person-to-person: Bolivian haemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Ebola fever, Marburg virus disease, and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever. See: epidemic haemorrhagic fever. Synonym: Ebola haemorrhagic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |