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ephemeral fever

noun

Medical Definition of EPHEMERAL FEVER

:  an infectious disease of cattle especially in Africa marked by fever, muscular rigidity, conjunctivitis, and nasal discharge and usually subsiding within two or three days—called also three-day fever

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