Usually means: Bacterial infection from rodent bites.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. rat-bite fever: Merriam-Webster
  2. rat-bite fever: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rat-bite fever: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rat-bite fever: Wiktionary
  5. rat-bite fever: Dictionary.com
  6. Rat-bite fever: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. rat-bite fever: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rat-bite fever: Legal dictionary

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  1. rat-bite fever: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. rat-bite fever: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  5. Rat-bite fever: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. rat-bite fever: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rat-bite fever)

noun:  Any febrile human illness caused by bacteria transmitted by rodents.
noun:  Spirillosis, or sodoku, transmitted by the gram-negative coiled rod Spirillum minus, found in Asia.
noun:  Streptobacillosis, or Haverhill fever or epidemic arthritic erythema, a severe disease caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis

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