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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a.
     Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a
     former worse state.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious
        fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia,
        and some other regions. It is marked by one or two
        remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains,
        and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral
        bacterium ({Spiroch[ae]te) in the blood. It is not
        usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring
        fever.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a.
     Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a
     former worse state.
  
     Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious
        fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia,
        and some other regions. It is marked by one or two
        remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains,
        and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral
        bacterium ({Spiroch[ae]te) in the blood. It is not
        usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring
        fever.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  relapsing fever
       n : marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite
           of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of
           high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and
           nausea that recur every week or ten days for several
           months [syn: recurrent fever]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  relapsing fever
     n.
     (lb en pathology) an infection caused by certain bacteria of the
  genus ''Borrelia'', transmitted by louse and ticks

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  relapsing fever
     n.
     (lb en pathology) an infection caused by certain bacteria of the
  genus ''Borrelia'', transmitted by louse and ticks

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  relapsing fever
     n.
     (lb en pathology) an infection caused by certain bacteria of the
  genus ''Borrelia'', transmitted by louse and ticks

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  relapsing fever
     n.
     (lb en pathology) an infection caused by certain bacteria of the
  genus ''Borrelia'', transmitted by louse and ticks

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