Meanings
- obsoleteuncountablemedicineA kind of fever borne by ticks, especially in cattle.
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While cattle can develop an immunity to babesiosis, in nonimmune cattle the destruction of the blood cells by the merozoites releases hemoglobin, resulting in the characteristic red urin (and feces) associated w ith Texas fever, also called redwater or redwater fever, murrain, spenetic fever, splenetic fever, Spanish fever, acclimation fever, southern fever, and eventually, after the etiology of the disease was deciphered, tick fever.
2010, Claire Strom, Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys: The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman SouthSynonyms: Texas fever
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA kind of fever borne by ticks, especially in cattle.
Translations
Irish an bhroinne dhearg
- an bhroinne dhearga kind of fever, especially in cattle
Polish babeszjoza bydła
- babeszjoza bydłaa kind of fever, especially in cattle
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redwater fever. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redwater%20fever
“redwater fever.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redwater%20fever. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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