calenture

[kal-uh n-cher, -choo r]

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noun

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

Origin of calenture

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 formscal·en·tu·ral, cal·en·tu·rish, adjective

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Calenture, kal′en-tūr, n. a kind of fever or delirium occurring on board ship in hot climates.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)|Various
But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?
St George's Cross|H. G. Keene
They presently catch fever, or a calenture, or a cramp, and so they die.
For Faith and Freedom|Walter Besant
Calenture, or Cuban malarial fever, comes on rather suddenly with a chill of greater or less severity and a violent headache.
Campaigning in Cuba|George Kennan

Yellow 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 Kennan

British Dictionary definitions for calenture

calenture

noun

a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke

Word Origin for calenture

C16: from Spanish calentura fever, ultimately from Latin calēre to be warm

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