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a slight fever lasting for only one or two days.Medical dictionary. 2011.
ephemeral fever — noun : a three day fever of cattle … Useful english dictionary
ephemeral fever of cattle — bovine ephemeral f … Medical dictionary
Bovine ephemeral fever — Taxobox virus group = v ordo = Mononegavirales familia = Rhabdoviridae genus = Ephemerovirus Bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) also known as Three Day Sickness is an arthropod vector born disease of cattle and is casued by the Ephemerovirus virus of… … Wikipedia
bovine ephemeral fever virus — an insect borne virus of the genus Ephemerovirus that causes bovine ephemeral fever … Medical dictionary
bovine ephemeral fever — bovine epizootic fever an acute viral disease of cattle in Africa, parts of Asia, and Australia, caused by a rhabdovirus transmitted by insect vectors; its symptoms resemble those of mild African horse sickness and include high fever lasting… … Medical dictionary
bovine ephemeral fever — noun a short lived disease of cattle and buffalo, with symptoms of fever and swollen joints, caused by an arbovirus transmitted by insects; three day sickness. Abbrev.: BEF …
ephemeral — I. adjective Etymology: Greek ephēmeros lasting a day, daily, from epi + hēmera day Date: 1576 1. lasting one day only < an ephemeral fever > 2. lasting a very short time < ephemeral pleasures > Synonyms: see transient • ephemerally … New Collegiate Dictionary
bovine ephemeral fever — noun A viral disease of cattle, caused by the Ephemerovirus virus, transmitted by insects. Abbreviation: BEF … Wiktionary
Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… … Medical dictionary
ephemeral — [16] Ephemeral, now used fairly loosely for ‘transitory’, originally meant specifically ‘lasting only one day’. It comes from Greek ephémeros, a compound formed from the prefix epí ‘on’ and hēmérā ‘day’. The Greeks named the mayfly ephémeron,… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
