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sweating sickness

noun

Meaning

  1. An unidentified, highly virulent disease with aches and sweating, the cause of a series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

miliary fever(English)sweat(English)english disease(English)bloody sweat(English)sweats(English)dysidrosis(English)panidrosis(English)night sweats(English)

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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