Definition

1. Noun:
   • Dengue fever: An acute infectious tropical disease transmitted by mosquitoes, characterized by high fever, severe headache, muscle and joint pain, and a skin rash resembling measles. In severe cases, it can cause bleeding, low levels of blood platelets, and dangerously low blood pressure (dengue hemorrhagic fever).
   • Hemorrhagic fever: A broader term for a group of illnesses caused by several distinct viruses, where a key symptom is fever accompanied by bleeding (hemorrhage).

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Sốt xuất huyết đang bùng phát vào mùa mưa. (Dengue fever is breaking out during the rainy season.)
  • Bệnh nhân được chẩn đoán mắc sốt xuất huyết. (The patient was diagnosed with hemorrhagic fever.)
  • Phòng chống muỗi đốt là cách tốt nhất để ngăn ngừa sốt xuất huyết. (Preventing mosquito bites is the best way to prevent dengue fever.)

Advanced Usage

• "sốt xuất huyết dengue": dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), a severe, potentially lethal complication of dengue virus infection.
  • Trẻ em có nguy cơ cao tiến triển thành sốt xuất huyết dengue. (Children have a higher risk of progressing to dengue hemorrhagic fever.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sốt xuất huyết do virus: viral hemorrhagic fever.
• Sốt dengue: dengue fever (often used interchangeably with "sốt xuất huyết" in common speech, though technically "sốt dengue" may refer to the classic form without severe hemorrhage).

Synonyms

• Dengue: The common short name for dengue fever.
• Breakbone fever: A historical colloquial term for dengue, referring to the severe muscle and joint pain.
• Hemorrhagic fever: The general medical term for fevers accompanied by bleeding tendencies.

Related Terms

• Muỗi vằn: mosquito, the primary vector for transmitting the dengue virus.
• Sốt: fever.
• Xuất huyết: hemorrhage, bleeding.

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