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noun
Pathology. a violent fever with delirium, affecting persons in the tropics.
Origin:
1585–95; earlier calentura < Spanish: fever, equivalent to calent(ar) to heat (< Latin calent-, stem of calēns, present participle of calēre to be hot) + -ura -ure
1585–95; earlier calentura < Spanish: fever, equivalent to calent(ar) to heat (< Latin calent-, stem of calēns, present participle of calēre to be hot) + -ura -ure
Related forms
cal·en·tu·ral, cal·en·tu·rish, adjective
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