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MILIARY FEVER

Dictionary entry overview: What does miliary fever mean?

• MILIARY FEVER (noun)
The noun MILIARY FEVER has 1 sense:

1. epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality

Familiarity information: MILIARY FEVER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MILIARY FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

miliary fever; sweating sickness

Hypernyms ("miliary fever" is a kind of...):

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

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