- an acute infectious disease of tropical and subtropical climates, characterized by fever, haemorrhages, vomiting of blood, and jaundice: caused by a virus transmitted by the bite of a female mosquito of the species Aedes aegyptiAlso called: yellow jack
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ˈyel•low ˈfe•ver, n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Pathologya serious, often fatal, infectious disease of warm climates, causing fever, liver damage, and jaundice.
yel′low fe′ver, [Pathol.]
- Pathologyan acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by an RNA virus transmitted by a mosquito, esp. Aedes aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice. Also called yellow jack.
- 1730–40
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yellow fever n
'yellow fever' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
aedes
- fever
- Finlay
- Reed
- Theiler
- yellow jack
- arbovirus
- mosquito
- vomito
- yellow-fever mosquito