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Sickness, Sweating

MedGen UID:
116681
•Concept ID:
C0242843
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Sign or Symptom
Synonyms: English Sweating Sickness; Sudor Anglicus; Sweating Sickness

Definition

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. [from MeSH]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVSickness, Sweating

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