sweating sickness 名詞
 汗熱病,流行性慄粒疹熱


 Sweat·ing, a. & n. from Sweat, v.
 Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory.
 Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness.
 Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.
 Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) Dairying A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.
 Sweating sickness Med., a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.

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 sweating sickness
      n 1: a disease of cattle (especially calves)
      2: epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by
         profuse sweating and high mortality [syn: miliary fever]