单词 | pernicious fever |
释义 | > as lemmaspernicious fever pernicious fever n. Medicine (now historical) any of various severe, usually tropical fevers, esp. (falciparum) malaria or yellow fever. ΚΠ 1802 W. C. Brown tr. G. Borsieri de Kanifeld Inst. Pract. Med. IV. 215 Pernicious fever of any kind. 1884 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 6 128 Our stock of febrifuges was exhausted, and above all we were sadly reduced by the pernicious fever which was difficult to combat without luxuries we could not command. 1893 Lancet 28 Oct. 1055/1 (note) Pernicious fever is a vague term used in these countries and may mean many things. 1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. x. 173 That very day, he had buried four white soldiers who had died of a pernicious fever. < as lemmas |
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