Term: marburg disease: a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness
Candidate hypernym: hemorrhagic fever: a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage → 1
Candidate hypernym: fabulist: a person who tells or invents fables → 0
Candidate hypernym: slip: a small sheet of paper → 0
Candidate hypernym: offprint: a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication → 0
Candidate hypernym: characidae: tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America → 0
Candidate hypernym: reluctance: (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance) → 0
Candidate hypernym: defense technical information center: the agency in the Department of Defense that provides scientific and technical information to federal agencies and their contractors → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus caragana: large genus of Asiatic deciduous shrubs or small trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: adenosine: (biochemistry) a nucleoside that is a structural component of nucleic acids; it is present in all living cells in a combined form as a constituent of DNA and RNA and ADP and ATP and AMP → 0
Candidate hypernym: meibomian gland: a long sebaceous gland that lubricates the eyelids → 0
Candidate hypernym: bacteriology: the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease → 0