calenture

Significado (Inglés)

  1. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
  2. A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.

Sinónimos

calentura

pyreticosis

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.

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