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‖ siriasis Path.|sɪˈraɪəsɪs|
[a. L. sīriāsis, a. Gr. σειρίᾱσις, f. σειριᾶν to be hot and scorching.]
A disease affecting children, characterized by inflammation of the brain and membranes, and burning fever. Cf. sideration 3.
1601Holland Pliny II. 397 Yong infants many times be tormented with an vnnaturall heat and burning of their head, called Siriasis. 1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Sirricasis [sic], an Inflammation, or rather great Heat of the Brain and its Membranes, occasion'd by the heat of the Sun. 1879Lewis & Short Lat. Dict. 1710/3. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 203 The very definite and probably specific disease described under the name siriasis. |