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单词 day-fever
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day-fevern.

Forms: see day n. and fever n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: day n., fever n.1
Etymology: < day n. + fever n.1 Compare earlier ephemera n.1 and the foreign-language forms cited at that entry.
Obsolete.
A fever that lasts no longer than a day, or which comes on during the day. Cf. ephemera n.1, ephemeral adj. 1a.In quot. 1610 spec. = sweating-sickness n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > fever of specific duration
tertian1362
quartana1387
quotidiana1398
ephemera1398
quarterna1568
day-fever1601
nonan1601
quintan1601
septimane1601
sextan1601
semitertian1609
triple quartan1625
diary1640
septan1657
third ague1674
quartanary1684
subintrant1684
intermittent1693
nonary1747
seven day fever1788
octan1799
third-day ague1818
type-fever1819
triple tertian1822
triplicate quartan (ague)1822
tetartophyia1842
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiii. i. 155 Those who vpon the Suns heat haue gotten the headach or a day-feuer [Fr. à ceux qui ont esté pressez de l'ardeur & chaleur du soleil].
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 24 That pestilent day-fever in Britaine [L. pestilentem illam ephemeram Britannicam], which commonly we call the British or English swet.
1729 E. Strother Pract. Physician for Travellers 236 Thus are these Day-Fevers often prevented from coming up to true and confirm'd Fevers.
1759 F. Home Med. Facts & Exper. i. ii. 30 It was very common in the evening to have a turbid secretion from the urine, which was a crisis to the ephemera, or day fever, from heat.
1771 D. Lysons Ess. Effects Camphire iv. 30 Thus, when the digestive powers are strong, health is frequently restored in the space of twenty-four hours; whence such a fever is called an Ephemera, or Day-fever.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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