粟ぞく粒りゅう熱ねつ

noun

miliary fever; sweating sickness

Historical medical term for a disease characterized by fever and profuse sweating, notably the English sweating sickness of the 15th–16th centuries. Also used for miliary fever (a condition with tiny skin eruptions). Rare in modern usage outside historical or medical contexts.

• 粟ぞく粒りゅう熱ねつは中ちゅう世せいヨーロッパで流りゅう行こうした病びょう気きの一ひとつである。

  Miliary fever was one of the diseases that spread in medieval Europe.

• この古こ文もん書じょには粟ぞく粒りゅう熱ねつの症しょう状じょうが詳くわしく記しるされている。

  This old document describes the symptoms of sweating sickness in detail.