Definition of Miliary fever

1. Noun. Epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality.

Exact synonyms: Sweating Sickness
Generic synonyms: Infectious Disease

Medical Definition of Miliary fever

1. An infectious disease characterised by profuse sweating and the production of sudamina, occurring formerly in severe epidemics. Synonym: miliaria. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Miliary Fever

milfoil
milfoils
milia
miliaria
miliaria alba
miliaria crystallina
miliaria profunda
miliaria rubra
miliarial
miliarias
miliaries
miliary
miliary abscess
miliary aneurysm
miliary embolism
miliary fever (current term)
miliary lung infiltrate
miliary papular syphilid
miliary pattern
miliary tb
miliary tuberculosis
milieu
milieu interieur
milieu therapy
milieus
milieux
mililiter
milimeter
miliola
miliolite

Literary usage of Miliary fever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"miliary fever. It will have been observed in the foregoing accounts of the ... De Haen and others answered that miliary fever was a natural form, ..."

2. Domestic Medicine; Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by by William Buchan (1798)
"OF THE miliary fever. »T*H1S fever takes its name from the ... The miliary fever chiefly attacks the idle and the phlegmatic, ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"miliary fever—SWEATING SICKNESS The disease is characterized by fever, profuse sweats, and an eruption of miliary vesicles. It prevailed and was very fatal ..."

4. A Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Including the Various Species of Fever, and by Alexander Philips Wilson Philip (1813)
"3. Of the Treatment of the Miliary Fevr r. As what has been termed the miliary fever is nothing more than the miliary eruption with the peculiar ..."

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