calenture
Pathology. a violent fever with delirium, affecting persons in the tropics.
Origin of calenture
1Other words from calenture
- cal·en·tu·ral, cal·en·tu·rish, adjective
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How to use calenture in a sentence
It is incredible what alienations of mind, and what a very calenture the devil raised in the country upon this odd occasion.
Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 2 (of 3) | Theodore ParkerIt never affected her brain, or drove her into furious calenture, but rooted slowly inward, preying on her life quite leisurely.
Cripps, the Carrier | R. D. (Richard Doddridge) BlackmoreYellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.
Campaigning in Cuba | George Kennancalenture, or Cuban malarial fever, comes on rather suddenly with a chill of greater or less severity and a violent headache.
Campaigning in Cuba | George KennanAnd that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?
Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. | John Uri Lloyd
British Dictionary definitions for calenture
/ (ˈkælənˌtjʊə) /
a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
Origin of calenture
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