SUDOR ANGLICUS
\sˈuːdɔːɹ ˈaŋɡlɪkəs], \sˈuːdɔːɹ ˈaŋɡlɪkəs], \s_ˈuː_d_ɔː_ɹ ˈa_ŋ_ɡ_l_ɪ_k_ə_s]\
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A clinical condition characterized by fever and profuse sweating and associated with high mortality. It occurred in epidemic form five times in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in England, first in 1485 and last in 1551, specially during the summer and early autumn, attacking the relatively affluent adult male population. The etiology was unknown.
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A very severe epidemic disease, characterized by profuse sweating, which appeared in England in 1486; and recurred, at different times, until about the middle of the 16th century. It was accompanied with coldness, excessive prostration of strength, palpitation, frequency and inequality of the pulse, and terminated favourably or unfavourably in the course of 24 hours. The French have given the name SUETTE DE PICARDlE, Suette des Picards, Fievre suante; Miliaris sudatoria, Sudor Picardicus, to an epidemic disease, which has "appeared several times in that province; the principal symptoms of which were profuse sweats and a miliary eruption. The disease recurred in 1821, and has been described, at length, by M. Rayer, who considers it to consist of a simultaneous state of inflammation of various tissues; and proposes to class it with variola, scarlatina, and measles. A form of it, in which the perspiration was of a black colour, was called Sudor Anglicus niger, Melanephidrosis, Black English Sweating sickness or fever.
By Robley Dunglison
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).