cat-scratch disease

[ kat-skrach ]
/ ˈkætˌskrætʃ /

noun Pathology.

a disorder characterized by fever and swelling of the lymph glands, caused by a viral infection resulting from the scratch or bite of a cat.
Also called cat-scratch fever.

Words nearby cat-scratch disease

British Dictionary definitions for cat-scratch fever

cat-scratch fever

noun

a disease of humans caused by an organism, Bartonella henselae, usually resulting from a scratch by a cat and characterized by lymph node enlargement