单词 | gambia fever |
释义 | Gambia fevern. Medicine. Now chiefly historical. A relapsing type of febrile illness occurring in the more chronic form of African trypanosomiasis, caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > trypanosomiasis sleepy sickness1803 Gambia fever1817 sleeping sickness1875 Negro lethargy1886 sleep disease1897 trypanosomiasis1902 trypanosomatosis1903 Gambian1904 Chagas' disease1912 1817 R. Robertson Synopsis Morborum (ed. 2) I. App. 374 I shall here re-insert the symptoms of the Gambia Fever as they were originally stated 48 years ago, on board the Weazel. 1846 United Service Mag. Feb. 223 Of fourteen Europeans, in the 2nd West India Regiment, twelve were more or less sufferers from Gambia fever. 1908 Practitioner Feb. 224 The trypanosomata of Gambia fever (trypanosomiasis). 1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind xv. 478 When the parasite circulated freely in the blood, a chronic, episodic fever (‘Gambia fever’) resulted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1817 |
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