A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
a disease caused by viruses that are spread by Aedes mosquitoes; dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF): potentially fatal complication of dengue characterized by bleeding from nose, mouth, skin wounds and internal organs.