单词 | hay fever |
释义 | hay fevern. A disorder of the early summer, characterized by a catarrhal condition of the ocular, nasal, and respiratory mucous membranes, accompanied generally by asthmatic symptoms; usually caused by the pollen of grasses and some flowers, sometimes also by the dust of other substances or the odorous emanations of some fruits and animals. First described under the name of summer catarrh by Bostock in Trans. Medico-Chirurg. Soc. 1819, X. 161, and 1828, XIV. 437. Gordon in 1829 used the names hay-asthma, hay-fever. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered sensation > [noun] > allergy > hay fever summer fever1659 rose fever1782 hay-asthma1827 summer catarrh1828 hay fever1829 rose cold1831 rye-asthma1875 pollen fever1887 pollinosis1915 1829 Gordon in Med. Gaz. IV. 266. 1835 S. Smith Lett. No. 354 I am suffering from my old complaint hay~fever (as it is called). 1840 Tweedie's Syst. Pract. Med. III. 84 The Summer Catarrh, hay-fever, or hay-asthma as it is termed from its supposed connexion with the effluvium of new hay. 1851 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. v. ix. 379 The King enjoyed an exemption from his annual attack of hay-fever. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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