The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
Sweating sickness — Sweating Sweat ing, a. & n. from {Sweat}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sweating bath}, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. {Sweating house}, a house for sweating persons in sickness. {Sweating iron}, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sweating sickness — n an epidemic febrile disease esp. of young cows that occurs chiefly in Africa, is characterized by profuse sweating and early high mortality, and is caused by a toxin produced and transmitted by a tick of the genus Hyalomma (H. truncatum) * * *… … Medical dictionary
sweating sickness — n. an acute, infectious, rapidly fatal disease, epidemic in Europe in the 15th and 16th cent., characterized by high fever and profuse sweating … English World dictionary
Sweating sickness — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD9 = ICD9|078.2 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D018614 Sweating sickness, also known as the English sweate ( la. sudor anglicus), was a… … Wikipedia
sweating sickness — a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours. [1495 1505] * * * ▪ disease also called English sweat a disease of unknown cause that appeared … Universalium
sweating sickness — noun a fever with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th–16th centuries … English new terms dictionary
sweating sickness — /ˈswɛtɪŋ ˌsɪknəs/ (say sweting .siknuhs) noun a febrile epidemic disease which appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries, characterised by profuse sweating, and frequently fatal in a few hours …
sweating sickness — noun 1. a disease of cattle (especially calves) • Hypernyms: ↑animal disease 2. epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality • Syn: ↑miliary fever • Hypernyms: ↑infectious disease … Useful english dictionary
Sweating sickness — An often fatal illness, named from one of its symptoms; probably a true influenza. Between 1315 and 1322 there was a series of epidemics accompanied by bad harvests and starvation. At the same time there were outbreaks of murrain. The result was… … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
sweating-sickness — … Useful english dictionary
