Usually means: Painful fever, bones feel broken.
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  1. breakbone: Wiktionary

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  1. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Breakbone, Breakbone, Breakbone: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (breakbone)

noun:  (pathology, uncountable) Dengue fever.
noun:  (US dialect, countable) A chicken's wishbone.
adjective:  Violent; rough and painful.

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