Synonyms for dengue
ˈdɛŋ geɪ, -gidengue

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1. denguenoun

   Synonyms:
   breakbone fever, dengue fever, dandy fever

2. denguenoun

   An acute febrile disease of the tropics caused by a flavivirus, transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

   Synonyms:
   dandy fever, breakbone fever, dengue fever

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1. dengue, dengue fever, dandy fever, breakbone fevernoun

   an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

   Synonyms:
   breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever

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1. • Infectious Disease

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1. denguenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Sp.] break-bone fever, dandy-fever

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1. List of paraphrases for "dengue":

   dang

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dengue

   Synonyms:
   Bouquet fever, breakbone fever

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How to use dengue in a sentence?

1. Martin Hibberd:

   Outbreaks like the current dengue cases can have significant impacts on health systems, these patients are acutely ill with severe symptoms and need to be treated fast to avoid complications.

2. Alejandro Cravioto:

   We have now clear information that the vaccine needs to be dealt with in a much safer way by using it exclusively in people already infected with dengue before, it requires for the people to be tested through a system that is not currently available but that we feel will be developed in the next years.

3. Myron Cohen:

   If Florida, for instance, is going to see a lot of dengue, they're going to need to be better prepared, and if the southern US is going to suffer more dengue, that would be bad, information like this is very interesting and very important. We hope politicians and policy-makers will get this and act on this concern.

4. Erik Sloan:

   Dengue is responsible for about 10% of people who come back from holiday with a temperature, we see more patients with Dengue than we did 10 or 20 years ago.

5. Jae Jung:

   My feeling is that Zika is very close to dengue virus, there is probably a very, very low chance of latency.