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Definition: JAIL FEVER

Part of Speech Definition
Expression 1. (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever , and ship fever .[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Definition: JAIL FEVER

Part of SpeechDefinition
Expression1. (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever , and ship fever .[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Common Expressions: JAIL FEVER

ExpressionsDefinition
Jail fever(Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever , and ship fever . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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