Weil's disease
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Weil's disease — vī(ə)lz , wī(ə)lz n a leptospirosis that is characterized by chills, fever, muscle pain, and hepatitis manifested by more or less severe jaundice and that is caused by a spirochete of the genus Leptospira (L. interrogans, esp. serotype… … Medical dictionary
Weil's disease — (Med.) An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Weil's disease — UK [ˈwaɪlz dɪˌziːz] / US [ˈvaɪlz dɪˌzɪz] noun [uncountable] medical a disease affecting animals and sometimes humans, caused by bacteria that are passed through the urine of an infected animal … English dictionary
Weil's disease — [vʌɪlz] noun a severe form of leptospirosis transmitted by rats via contaminated water. Origin C19: named after the German physician H. Adolf Weil … English new terms dictionary
Weil's disease — /ˈvaɪlz dəziz/ (say vuylz duhzeez) noun a bacterial infection caused by the leptospirosis bacterium which is spread by the urine of rats, typically infecting water in caves. {named after Adolf Weil, 1848–1916, German physician who first described …
Weil's disease — See leptospirosis … Dictionary of molecular biology
Weil’s disease — jaundice … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
Weil's disease — leptospirosis … The new mediacal dictionary
Weil's disease — noun a severe form of leptospirosis in human beings • Hypernyms: ↑swamp fever, ↑leptospirosis … Useful english dictionary
Weil'sdisease — Weil s disease (vīlz, wīlz) n. A severe form of leptospirosis in humans that is characterized by jaundice, fever, muscle pain, and a tendency to hemorrhage. [After Adolf Weil (1848 1916), German physician.] * * * … Universalium
