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- noun medicine An
infectious viral disease characterised byfever and chest pain.
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- noun an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
Etymologies
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Because early cases were recorded on the island of Bornholm.
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