noun
epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
• Syn: ↑sweating sickness
• Hypernyms: ↑infectious disease
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noun : an epidemic disease characterized by fever, excessive sweating, and eruption of miliary vesicles in the skin
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miliary fever,
1. = miliaria. (Cf. ↑miliaria)
2. = sweating sickness. (Cf. ↑sweating sickness)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.