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breakbone fever [breyk-bohn] WORD ORIGIN noun Pathology. dengue. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of breakbone fever 1860–65; break + bone, so called because it makes the bones ache as if breaking at the joints Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 British Dictionary definitions for breakbone fever breakbone fever noun another name for dengue Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 breakbone fever in Medicine breakbone fever [brāk′bōn′] n. dengue The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
