In severe cases, the viral infection causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin, and necrosis (death) of cells in the kidney and liver. The damage done to the liver from the virus results in severe jaundice which yellows the skin. Hence, the yellow in yellow fever..
filter definition: The definition of a filter is something that separates solids from liquids, or eliminates impurities, or allows only certain things to pass through. (noun) A Brita that you attach to your water faucet to remove impurities from you...
2) In telecommunications, a filter is a device that selectively sorts signals and passes through a desired range of signals while suppressing the others. This kind of filter is used to suppress noise or to separate signals into bandwidth channels.