yellow fevern.

Brit.

/ˌjɛləʊ ˈfiːvə/, U.S.

/ˌjɛloʊ ˈfivər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., fever n.¹

Etymology: < yellow adj. + fever n.¹, so called on account of the jaundice that affects some sufferers.

1. Medicine. A severe infectious disease occurring mainly in tropical and subtropical regions, which is characterized by fever, jaundice, and haemorrhage (esp. into the skin and gastrointestinal tract), and is caused by a flavivirus transmitted by arthropods, esp. mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. In early use also: any of various other febrile illnesses accompanied by jaundice (in persons or animals) (now historical and rare).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > yellow fever

yellow fever1738

black vomit1740

St. Domingo fever1822

yellow typhus1822

yellow Jack1832

vomito1833

Panama fever1849

1738 Daily Gazetteer 29 May 1/3 At my arrival here [sc. Antigua], I found it very Sickly, the People dying very fast, with the Yellow Fever.

1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd II. i. 18 For a Drink or Drench he must have, as well in a Burning, as in a Yellow Fever, commonly stiled the Yellows in Horses.

1745 J. Mitchell Let. in B. Franklin Papers (1961) III. 18 The first of these concomitants of our yellow fever..is an inflammation of the stomach, or liver, or both.

1764 D. Monro Acct. Dis. Brit. Mil. Hosp. 162 (note) In the yellow fevers which appeared in Haslar Hospital,..the Blood was in quite in a different State from what it is in the Yellow Fever of the West Indies.

1794 B. Rush (title) An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793.

1825 R. Southey Let. 16 Mar. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 156 He had had the yellow fever three times, and..still bore strong vestiges of it in his complexion.

1844 T. J. Graham Mod. Domest. Med. 752 In very acute attacks of yellow fever..we resort to the use of purgatives, and the cold affusion.

1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 204 Most authorities hold that true yellow-fever is of the continued type.

1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors ix. 215 Without the knowledge of the manner in which the disease is transmitted the cities of today would be as defenseless against yellow fever as they were formerly.

1954 G. P. Gladstone & E. P. Abraham in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xvii. 320 The prolonged production of antibody following attacks of measles, Rift Valley fever and yellow fever which in the latter case may continue for 75 years after an attack.

2011 T. Koch Dis. Maps 82 At least five different yellow fevers, each distinct in its etiology and at least partially distinct in their treatment, were therefore proposed.

2. Chiefly humorous slang. In various allusive uses; spec. (a) = gold fever n. at gold n.¹ and adj. Compounds 1e; (b) strong sexual attraction to people of East or South-East Asian ethnic origin, or to light-skinned black people (cf. yellow adj. 4a, yellow adj. 4b).

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1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton III. ii. 100 It is true that I had a complete disinclination for miss;—but then the yellow fever which her gold brought on must be remedied.

1848 S. Reynolds Let. 12 Nov. in Larkin Papers (1962) VIII. 33 Were I twenty years younger, I should put myself in the way of taking the ‘Yellow’ fever, by going to California.

1854 Poultry Chron. 1 582 After this we got the yellow fever, and the clear buff and silver cinnamon fever. We did not care for a thing except speckless colour.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Yellow fever, a cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloured coat, in which yellow predominates.

1884 Illustr. Sydney News 26 Aug. 5/3 He said I had the yellow fever, and was to go to the [gold] diggings to get cured.

1892 J. Hardy in Denham Tracts I. 336 When the ‘Runch’ is in bloom the appearance is called ‘the Yellow Fever’.

1914 C. J. Pfaff Diggers’ Story 149 Here..he used to burn the quicksilver out of the amalgam brought to the bank, and contracted a certain amount of ‘yellow fever’.

1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 171 Yellow fever (a sexual fondness for orientals).

1976 A. Singh Novels of Harlem Renaissance 58 Unconsciously,..the near-white heroines of the ‘passing’ novels suffer from ‘yellow fever’—a color-conscious distaste for Negroes of darker skins.

2007 P. K. Conant Sex Secrets Amer. Geisha i. i. 16 The attraction to Asian women can be so strong that some Western men develop an Asian fetish, known as ‘yellow fever’, which causes an increase in male body temperature and heart rate triggered by some combination of the woman's great femininity and mysterious Asian looks.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as yellow fever epidemic, yellow fever patient, etc.

1811 E. N. Bancroft Ess. Yellow Fever 424 He inoculated himself in the left fore-arm with the black matter which had been just before vomited by a moribund Yellow Fever patient.

1861 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 73 During the yellow fever epidemic at Fort Hamilton, L.I.,..I took about two hundred grains of it [sc. quinine], and have never been in better health in my life since.

1898 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Oct. 300 When a sufficient altitude is reached, the yellow fever zone is left behind.

1916 Internat. Clinics 3 295 Louis, who evidently believed in working his ‘subs’, drives him hard with English and Spanish translations for the yellow fever reports of the Gibraltar commission.

1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxxii. 427 A closely related..form of infective hepatitis has followed the administration of human serum or blood in the form of transfusions, convalescent serum or yellow fever vaccine.

2017 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Feb. e2 Brazil is suffering the worst yellow fever outbreak among humans in decades.

C2.

yellow fever mosquito n. any mosquito capable of transmitting yellow fever, spec. Aedes aegypti, which also carries other viral diseases.Although native to Africa, Aedes aegypti is now found in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world.

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1901 Philadelphia Med. Jrnl. 5 Oct. 558/2 It is not considered necessary to disinfect the cargoes of ships, unless there is ground to believe that the vessel might possibly have carried the yellow fever mosquito in transit.

1958 Sci. News Let. 8 Mar. 149/1 Numbers of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, in the United States are declining, U. S. Public Health Service researchers reported.

2015 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 28 Apr. (Local section) Yellow fever mosquitoes are stealthy, approaching from behind to bite ankles and elbows.

yellow fever virus n. the causative agent of yellow fever (now known to be a flavivirus).

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1857 New Orleans Med. News & Hosp. Gaz. 3 26 Had the steamer Ben Franklin..been properly cleansed and thoroughly disinfected, and her cargo discharged, the introduction of the yellow fever virus by the arrival of this vessel from a yellow fever port would have been prevented.

1929 Lancet 26 Jan. 194/2 Profiting by the knowledge of filterable viruses which has accumulated recently.., he [sc. Prof. Edward Hindle] was able, on receiving yellow fever virus, to prepare a vaccine which is extremely potent in protecting monkeys against the disease.

2010 A. W. Artenstein et al. Vaccines i. 4 Yellow fever virus entered the New World through the transatlantic slave trade from Africa..; it caused recurrent, highly lethal epidemics in coastal areas of the Americas from the seventeenth century to the early part of the twentieth century.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	yellow fever
释义	yellow fevern. Brit. /ˌjɛləʊ ˈfiːvə/, U.S. /ˌjɛloʊ ˈfivər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., fever n.¹ Etymology: < yellow adj. + fever n.¹, so called on account of the jaundice that affects some sufferers. 1. Medicine. A severe infectious disease occurring mainly in tropical and subtropical regions, which is characterized by fever, jaundice, and haemorrhage (esp. into the skin and gastrointestinal tract), and is caused by a flavivirus transmitted by arthropods, esp. mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. In early use also: any of various other febrile illnesses accompanied by jaundice (in persons or animals) (now historical and rare). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > yellow fever yellow fever1738 black vomit1740 St. Domingo fever1822 yellow typhus1822 yellow Jack1832 vomito1833 Panama fever1849 1738 Daily Gazetteer 29 May 1/3 At my arrival here [sc. Antigua], I found it very Sickly, the People dying very fast, with the Yellow Fever. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd II. i. 18 For a Drink or Drench he must have, as well in a Burning, as in a Yellow Fever, commonly stiled the Yellows in Horses. 1745 J. Mitchell Let. in B. Franklin Papers (1961) III. 18 The first of these concomitants of our yellow fever..is an inflammation of the stomach, or liver, or both. 1764 D. Monro Acct. Dis. Brit. Mil. Hosp. 162 (note) In the yellow fevers which appeared in Haslar Hospital,..the Blood was in quite in a different State from what it is in the Yellow Fever of the West Indies. 1794 B. Rush (title) An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793. 1825 R. Southey Let. 16 Mar. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 156 He had had the yellow fever three times, and..still bore strong vestiges of it in his complexion. 1844 T. J. Graham Mod. Domest. Med. 752 In very acute attacks of yellow fever..we resort to the use of purgatives, and the cold affusion. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 204 Most authorities hold that true yellow-fever is of the continued type. 1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors ix. 215 Without the knowledge of the manner in which the disease is transmitted the cities of today would be as defenseless against yellow fever as they were formerly. 1954 G. P. Gladstone & E. P. Abraham in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xvii. 320 The prolonged production of antibody following attacks of measles, Rift Valley fever and yellow fever which in the latter case may continue for 75 years after an attack. 2011 T. Koch Dis. Maps 82 At least five different yellow fevers, each distinct in its etiology and at least partially distinct in their treatment, were therefore proposed. 2. Chiefly humorous slang. In various allusive uses; spec. (a) = gold fever n. at gold n.¹ and adj. Compounds 1e; (b) strong sexual attraction to people of East or South-East Asian ethnic origin, or to light-skinned black people (cf. yellow adj. 4a, yellow adj. 4b). ΚΠ 1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton III. ii. 100 It is true that I had a complete disinclination for miss;—but then the yellow fever which her gold brought on must be remedied. 1848 S. Reynolds Let. 12 Nov. in Larkin Papers (1962) VIII. 33 Were I twenty years younger, I should put myself in the way of taking the ‘Yellow’ fever, by going to California. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 582 After this we got the yellow fever, and the clear buff and silver cinnamon fever. We did not care for a thing except speckless colour. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Yellow fever, a cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloured coat, in which yellow predominates. 1884 Illustr. Sydney News 26 Aug. 5/3 He said I had the yellow fever, and was to go to the [gold] diggings to get cured. 1892 J. Hardy in Denham Tracts I. 336 When the ‘Runch’ is in bloom the appearance is called ‘the Yellow Fever’. 1914 C. J. Pfaff Diggers’ Story 149 Here..he used to burn the quicksilver out of the amalgam brought to the bank, and contracted a certain amount of ‘yellow fever’. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 171 Yellow fever (a sexual fondness for orientals). 1976 A. Singh Novels of Harlem Renaissance 58 Unconsciously,..the near-white heroines of the ‘passing’ novels suffer from ‘yellow fever’—a color-conscious distaste for Negroes of darker skins. 2007 P. K. Conant Sex Secrets Amer. Geisha i. i. 16 The attraction to Asian women can be so strong that some Western men develop an Asian fetish, known as ‘yellow fever’, which causes an increase in male body temperature and heart rate triggered by some combination of the woman's great femininity and mysterious Asian looks. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as yellow fever epidemic, yellow fever patient, etc. Π 1811 E. N. Bancroft Ess. Yellow Fever 424 He inoculated himself in the left fore-arm with the black matter which had been just before vomited by a moribund Yellow Fever patient. 1861 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 73 During the yellow fever epidemic at Fort Hamilton, L.I.,..I took about two hundred grains of it [sc. quinine], and have never been in better health in my life since. 1898 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Oct. 300 When a sufficient altitude is reached, the yellow fever zone is left behind. 1916 Internat. Clinics 3 295 Louis, who evidently believed in working his ‘subs’, drives him hard with English and Spanish translations for the yellow fever reports of the Gibraltar commission. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxxii. 427 A closely related..form of infective hepatitis has followed the administration of human serum or blood in the form of transfusions, convalescent serum or yellow fever vaccine. 2017 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Feb. e2 Brazil is suffering the worst yellow fever outbreak among humans in decades. C2. yellow fever mosquito n. any mosquito capable of transmitting yellow fever, spec. Aedes aegypti, which also carries other viral diseases.Although native to Africa, Aedes aegypti is now found in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. ΚΠ 1901 Philadelphia Med. Jrnl. 5 Oct. 558/2 It is not considered necessary to disinfect the cargoes of ships, unless there is ground to believe that the vessel might possibly have carried the yellow fever mosquito in transit. 1958 Sci. News Let. 8 Mar. 149/1 Numbers of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, in the United States are declining, U. S. Public Health Service researchers reported. 2015 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 28 Apr. (Local section) Yellow fever mosquitoes are stealthy, approaching from behind to bite ankles and elbows. yellow fever virus n. the causative agent of yellow fever (now known to be a flavivirus). ΚΠ 1857 New Orleans Med. News & Hosp. Gaz. 3 26 Had the steamer Ben Franklin..been properly cleansed and thoroughly disinfected, and her cargo discharged, the introduction of the yellow fever virus by the arrival of this vessel from a yellow fever port would have been prevented. 1929 Lancet 26 Jan. 194/2 Profiting by the knowledge of filterable viruses which has accumulated recently.., he [sc. Prof. Edward Hindle] was able, on receiving yellow fever virus, to prepare a vaccine which is extremely potent in protecting monkeys against the disease. 2010 A. W. Artenstein et al. Vaccines i. 4 Yellow fever virus entered the New World through the transatlantic slave trade from Africa..; it caused recurrent, highly lethal epidemics in coastal areas of the Americas from the seventeenth century to the early part of the twentieth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1738
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