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Brill's disease(medicine)
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fluke(5) (iou) and Disease, Brill-Zinsser (health)


fluke(5) (iou)



fluke verb2 trans. & intrans. [flu:k] M19.
[from FLUKE noun3.]
Orig. in Billiards and Other Games: achieve by or make a lucky stroke. Now more widely: do, get, etc., (something) by luck rather than skill.
Times Bennett..tried for a cannon, but fluked the white. N. Gould Even if he managed to fluke Home in this trial. J. I. M. Stewart If I did fluke a place at Oxford.

Disease, Brill-Zinsser (health)


Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii) remains viable for many years and then when host defenses are down, it is reactivated causing recurrent typhus.