HyperDic: miliary_fever

English > 1 sense of the expression *miliary fever*:
NOUN	state	miliary fever, sweating sickness	epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality

English > *miliary fever*: 1 sense > noun 1, state
Meaning	epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality.
Synonym	sweating sickness
Broader	infectious disease	A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
Spanish	fiebre miliar