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Picardy sweat en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A disease of 18th- and 19th-century Europe, first recorded in Picardy, France, that resulted in excessive uncontrollable sweating and in severe cases was quickly followed by death. Thought to be caused by hantavirus.

Coordinates

English sweat

Hypernyms

sweat · sweating sickness · sweats

Synonyms

Picardy sweating sickness

Translations (4)

de picard'scher Schweiß (Translations) · de Frieselfieber (Translations) · de picard'sches Schweissfieber (Translations) · fr suette des Picards (Translations)