单词 | undulant |
释义 | undulantadj. a. Moving after the manner of waves; rising and falling like waves. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > undulating waving1585 flexuous1626 undulary1646 rippling1670 wavy1708 undulating1715 billowing1718 undulatory1794 waved1820 undulant1830 undulous1862 1830 S. Maunder Dict. Eng. Lang. 1834 R. M. Milnes Memorials of Tour in Greece 138 Whose sweet undulant murmur the homeless mariner hearkened, Over the undulant sapphire. 1862 H. Taylor St. Clement's Eve ii. ii Sea-spirits..Gliding and lapsing in an undulant dance. 1896 W. D. Howells Impressions & Experiences 215 The lesser craft that plied upon the many channels of the meadows..seemed to sail upon their undulant grasses. b. undulant fever n. a rarely fatal febrile disease, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella, which may be chronic but intermittent or acute and chiefly affects the reticuloendothelial system; (human) brucellosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > bacterial or viral disorders > [noun] > bacterial disorders endemic syphilis1865 Oroya fever1873 verruga1873 Weil's disease1889 undulant fever1896 pasteurellosis1902 microbism1904 spirillosis1904 spirochaetosis1906 necrobacillosis1907 melioidosis1921 Reiter's disease1922 rickettsiosis1925 leptospirosis1926 Carrion's disease1927 treponematosis1927 bartonellosis1928 brucellosis1930 mycobacteriosis1938 listerellosis1939 listeriosis1941 shigellosis1944 Reiter's syndrome1947 Shigella dysentery1963 pigbel1966 mud fever1969 Lyme arthritis1976 toxic shock syndrome1978 legionellosis1979 TSS1980 1896 M. L. Hughes in Lancet 25 July 239/2 It has occurred to me that the term ‘Undulant Fever’, by referring to the peculiar pyrexial curve so characteristic of the disease, might prove a serviceable name. 1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever i. 3 (note) During epidemics of undulant or enteric fevers. 1930 J. T. Duncan et al. in Syst. Bacteriol. (Med. Res. Council) V. ix. 404 There has been much controversy as to whether Br. abortus, so commonly found in cattle, is capable of producing undulant fever in man. 1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xviii. 75/1 Br. melitensis causes a similar infection in goats and is common in Mediterranean countries. In man it gives rise to a severe form of undulant fever called Malta fever. Derivatives ˈundulancy n. wave-like motion. ΚΠ 1921 in N.E.D. at Undulant This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1830 |
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