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Definition of: trench fever
Pathol.
A remittent rickettsial fever transmitted by body lice and characterized by headache, nausea, high temperature, profuse sweating, muscular pains, and neuralgic pains in the legs. It attacked soldiers assigned to prolonged service in trenches during World War I.
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