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热带地方的热病,中暑

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Calenture \Cal"en*ture\, n. [F. calenture, fr. Sp. calenture
   heat, fever, fr. calentar to heat, fr. p. pr. of L. calere to
   be warm.] (Med.)
   A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics;
   esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever,
   among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to
   imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself
   into it.

Calenture \Cal"en*ture\, v. i.
   To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
   [Poetic]

         Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or
         calentures in depths of limpid flood.    --Wordsworth.