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Mountain fever   /mˈaʊntən fˈivər/   Listen
Mountain fever

noun
1.
Caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks.  Synonyms: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick fever.





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"Mountain fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... had come to replace the worn and tarnished gold by '73, then mountain fever had seized and laid him by the heels, and then all the Indians in Arizona, or the army women out of it, could not dissuade Mrs. Archer from her duty. She and Lilian were the heroines of a buckboard ride from Drum Barracks to the Colorado, from the Colorado ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King


Words linked to "Mountain fever" :   tick fever, spotted fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever


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