| 单词 | lightning catarrh |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslightning catarrh lightning catarrh n. now historical and rare severe respiratory disease of sudden onset (probably usually influenza). [After German Blitzkatarrh (1825 or earlier as Blitzcatarrh), so named on account of the sudden onset and severity of the disease.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > influenza influenza1743 grippe1775 lightning catarrh1836 flu1839 Spanish influenza1890 St. Kilda cold1897 Spanish flu1918 Asian flu1957 Asian influenza1957 Mao flu1968 Asian contagion1997 1836 Periscope Apr. in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 24 499/2 The German writers call it the Russian catarrh, or the ‘lightning catarrh’, blitz-katarrh, (from the suddenness of its seizure, and rapidity of its march). 1883 B. W. Richardson Field of Dis. 52 A suddenly developed and intensely severe cold or catarrh, hence sometimes called ‘lightning catarrh.’ 1938 Kentucky Med. Jrnl. 36 179/1 What is this disease called influenza, la-grippe, hot ague, a great cold, lightning catarrh, crowing cough, the strange fever, the jolly rant? < as lemmas |
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