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pretibial fever

noun

Medical Definition of PRETIBIAL FEVER

:  a rare infectious disease that is characterized by an eruption in the pretibial region, headache, backache, malaise, chills, and fever and that is caused by a spirochete of the genus Leptospira (L. interrogans autumnalis)

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