Charcot's fever

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Noun

Charcot's fever (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A recurrent fever associated with gallstones and jaundice.
    Synonyms: Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever
    • 1907, Hobart Amory Hare, Practical Diagnosis: The Use of Symptoms and Physical Signs in the Diagnosis of Disease:
      Again, acute ulcerative endocarditis and purulent phlebitis may cause similar symptoms, as may also hepatic abscess, impaction of gallstones, with suppurative cholangitis, causing the so-called Charcot's fever (see below).

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