PUO
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[edit]Noun
[edit]PUO (plural PUOs)
- Pyrexia of unknown origin.
- 1933, Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, Penguin, published 2005, page 402:
- The particular “bug” that had assailed me was difficult to locate, but was obviously a form of “P.U.O.” or trench fever not dissimilar from the Malta disease in 1916.