miliary fever

noun

1. an acute infectious fever characterized by profuse sweating and the formation on the skin of minute fluid-filled vesicles Nontechnical namesweating sickness

Example Sentences

He became at once the victim of pleuro-pneumonia, together with the fatal malaria and miliary fevers.

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This, which maybe called miliaria sudatoria, has been confounded with other miliary fevers, and has made the existence of the latter doubted.

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In Sweden the miliary fever is said by the peasantry to be caused by the elf-mote or meeting with elves, as a remedy for which the lichen aphosus or lichen caninus is sought.

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