Definitions for calenture

calenture cal·en·ture

Spelling: [kal-uh n-cher, -choo r]
IPA: /ˈkæl ən tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər/

Calenture is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 514 anagrams from letters in calenture (aceelnrtu).

Definitions for calenture

noun

  1. Pathology. a violent fever with delirium, affecting persons in the tropics.

Origin of calenture

1585-95; earlier calentura Spanish: fever, equivalent to calent(ar) to heat (Latin calent-, stem of calēns, present participle of calēre to be hot) + -ura -ure

Examples for calenture

Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.

calenture, kal′en-tūr, n. a kind of fever or delirium occurring on board ship in hot climates.

They presently catch fever, or a calenture, or a cramp, and so they die.

In the rapture with which Keats sang of trees and fields, there is something of the nature of calenture.

The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.

A new world seemed to open before her longing gaze—a world, or a calenture, a mirage?

This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.

The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.

calenture, or Cuban malarial fever, comes on rather suddenly with a chill of greater or less severity and a violent headache.

But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?

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