familial Mediterranean fever

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

  1. (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, Mediterranean erythematous fever, Mediterranean fever

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