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calenture
[ kal-uhn-cher, -choor ]
noun
- Pathology. a violent fever with delirium, affecting persons in the tropics.
calenture
/ ˈkælənˌtjʊə /
noun
- a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
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Other Words From
- calen·tural calen·turish adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of calenture1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of calenture1
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Example Sentences
It is incredible what alienations of mind, and what a very calenture the devil raised in the country upon this odd occasion.
It never affected her brain, or drove her into furious calenture, but rooted slowly inward, preying on her life quite leisurely.
Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.
Calenture, or Cuban malarial fever, comes on rather suddenly with a chill of greater or less severity and a violent headache.
And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?
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