familial Mediterranean fever

English

Noun

familial Mediterranean fever (usually uncountable, plural familial Mediterranean fevers)

(pathology) a hereditary inflammatory disorder, characterized by recurrent fever, that affects groups of people originating from around the Mediterranean Sea, including Armenians, Sephardi Jews, Greeks, and Arabs

Synonyms

Armenian disease

Translations

inflammatory disorder

Armenian: պարբերական հիվանդություն (hy) (parberakan hivandutʿyun), երևանյան հիվանդություն (erewanyan hivandutʿyun), հայկական հիվանդություն (haykakan hivandutʿyun)

Galician: febre familiar mediterránea f

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