abortus fever


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abortus fever /əˈbɔːtəs/
noun Medicine the commonest form of undulant fever in humans, caused by the brucellosis bacterium.
– origin 1920s: from L. abortus ‘miscarriage’.
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