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cotton fever

cotton fever noun: a fever that follows intravenous drug use with a cotton filter, deriving from an endotoxin released by the bacterium Pantoea agglomerans.

Noun

cotton fever (uncountable)

  1. A fever that follows intravenous drug use with a cotton filter, deriving from an endotoxin released by the bacterium Pantoea agglomerans.

Questions about cotton fever

What does cotton fever mean?
Cotton fever means a fever that follows intravenous drug use with a cotton filter, deriving from an endotoxin released by the bacterium Pantoea agglomerans.
What part of speech is cotton fever?
Cotton fever is a noun.

Words near cotton fever in the dictionary

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  2. cotton ceilings
  3. Cotton County
  4. Cotton effect
  5. Cotton effects
  6. cotton fever
  7. cotton fish
  8. cotton fishes
  9. cotton fleahopper
  10. cotton fleahoppers
  11. cotton gin

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