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Descriptor English: Sweating Sickness
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedad del Sudor
Descriptor enfermedad del sudor
Entry term(s) enfermedad de la sudoración
enfermedad inglesa del sudor
sudor anglicus
Scope note: Condición clínica caracterizada por fiebre y sudoración profusa, asociada con mortalidad alta. Ocurrió de forma epidémica en cinco ocasiones en los siglos quince y dieciseis, en Inglaterra, por primera vez en 1485 y, por última, en 1551, especialmente durante el verano y a inicios del otoño, afectando la población masculina adulta.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doença do Suor
Descriptor French: Suette miliaire
Entry term(s): English Sweating Sickness
Sickness, Sweating
Sudor Anglicus
Tree number(s): C23.888.119.344.672
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018614
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: a hist epidemic dis
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
DeCS ID: 32012
Unique ID: D018614
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Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/04/19
Revision Date: 1999/11/03
Sweating Sickness - Preferred
Concept UI M0027899
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Sweating Sickness
Entry term(s) English Sweating Sickness
Sickness, Sweating
Sudor Anglicus



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