ephemeral fever

ephemeral fever
ephemeral fever n an infectious disease of cattle esp. in Africa marked by fever, muscular rigidity, conjunctivitis, and nasal discharge and usu. subsiding within two or three days called also three-day fever

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a slight fever lasting for only one or two days.

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