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Ague

An acute fever.

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Illness 76% connected

The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.

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Malady 76% connected

Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially,…

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Sickness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

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Symptom 76% connected

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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Unwellness 76% connected

Quality or state of being unwell.

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Quartan 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

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Malaria 70% connected

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, pr…

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