Usually means: Mysterious, deadly epidemic; Tudor England.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweating sickness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. sweating sickness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sweating sickness: Vocabulary.com
  4. sweating sickness: Wordnik
  5. sweating sickness: Wiktionary
  6. sweating sickness: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. sweating sickness: Dictionary.com
  8. Sweating-sickness, Sweating sickness (cattle), Sweating sickness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. sweating sickness: Rhymezone
  10. sweating-sickness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. sweating sickness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sweating sickness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. sweating sickness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sweating sickness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweating sickness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. sweating sickness: Medical dictionary
  6. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweating sickness, Sweating sickness, Sweating sickness: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (sweating sickness)

noun:  (historical, pathology) An unidentified, highly virulent disease with aches and sweating, the cause of a series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551.

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