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单词 undulant
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undulantadj.

Brit. /ˈʌndjᵿlənt/, /ˈʌndʒᵿlənt/, U.S. /ˈəndʒələnt/, /ˈəndjələnt/
Etymology: < Latin *undulant-, undulans: compare undular adj., and Spanish undulante, French ondulant.
a. Moving after the manner of waves; rising and falling like waves.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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adj.1830
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