Weil's disease


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Weil's disease /vʌɪlz/
noun a severe form of leptospirosis transmitted by rats via contaminated water.
– origin C19: named after the German physician H. Adolf Weil.
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