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calenture

[ kal-uhn-cher, -choor ]

noun

  1. Pathology. a violent fever with delirium, affecting persons in the tropics.


calenture

/ ˈæəˌʊə /

noun

  1. a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • e·ٳ۲ e·ٳ۾ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of calenture1

1585–95; earlier calentura < Spanish: fever, equivalent to calent ( ar ) to heat (< Latin calent-, stem of ŧԲ, present participle of ŧ to be hot) + -ura -ure
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of calenture1

C16: from Spanish calentura fever, ultimately from Latin ŧ to be warm
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For example, the chapter on 'scorbutic nostalgia' — the psychological and emotional impacts of the disease, including hallucinations of food, water or home — is woven through an examination of the depression attributed to 'calenture', or sea-fever.

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While moored here, Joseph Gabriel, the Chilian, who stole the Indian king's daughter, died of a malignant calenture.

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"And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?"

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Calenture, kal′en-tūr, n. a kind of fever or delirium occurring on board ship in hot climates.

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To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.

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