tropical fever due to heat exposure
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• (v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. • (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.Calenture: words in the...
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Cal'en·ture noun [ French
calenture , from Spanish
calenture heat, fever, from
calentar to heat, from present participle of Latin
calere to be warm .]
(Medicine) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompani...
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archaic or obsolete terms > Medical: A burning fever, temperature.
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