| 单词 | yellow sickness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow sickness yellow sickness n. now rare (a) jaundice; (b) an infectious disease with a high mortality rate occurring in sporadic epidemics, esp. in Wales, England, and Ireland in the 6th and 7th centuries; = yellow plague n.; historical; (c) a disease of hyacinths characterized by the development of dark spots and stripes on the foliage, followed by yellowing, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. hyacinthi. [In sense (c) after German gelbe Krankheit (J. H. Wakker 1883, in Bot. Centralbl. 14 315).] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > flowers yellow sickness1568 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice jaundice1303 yellow evila1387 aurigo1398 gulesought14.. yellow soughtc1400 green jaundice1547 yellow sickness1568 icterism1660 yellow plague1668 icterus1706 orange skin1822 cholaemia1866 leptospiral jaundice1924 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 65 Rubarbe purgeth away choler and fleme, specialy from ye stomach and liuer, and it purgeth the bloode, and putteth away stoppinges, and the deceases that arise there vpon, the iaundes, otherwise called the guelsoght, that is the yelow sicknes. 1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 214 (note) The yellow sickness, a pestilential distemper which is mentioned by abundance of ancient writers, as laying Wales almost desolate. 1807 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 3 437 (note) Yellows,..Yellow sickness, or Jaundice. 1885 Bot. Gaz. 10 308 The only genuine instance of parasitic bacteria in plants yet mentioned by the books (DeBary, Zopf, etc.) is that of the yellow sickness of hyacinths, first described by Dr. Wakker, of Amsterdam, in 1882. 1937 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Oct. 661/1 E. Leschke (1922) described gout and acholuric jaundice in a patient whose father ‘appeared yellow from childhood’, and whose grandfather had suffered from gout and ‘yellow-sickness’, probably acholuric jaundice, all his life. 1946 Fruit-grower 5 Dec. 615/2 It happened, however, that about this time [sc. 1877] a yellow sickness of hyacinths made its appearance in Holland, being characterised by the presence of shiny masses of bacteria in the vessels. 1993 R. Gardner in D. Gardner-Medwin et al. Med. in Northumbria iii. 48 Bubonic plague appears to have occurred in several waves, but the ‘yellow sickness’ in the previous century was almost certainly severe relapsing fever with jaundice. < as lemmas |
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