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Weil Path.|vaɪl|
[The name of H. A. Weil (1848–1916), German physician, who described the disease in 1886 (Deutsch. Archiv f. Klin. Med. XXXIX. 210).]
Weil's disease, a severe, sometimes fatal, form of leptospirosis that is characterized by fever, jaundice, and muscle pains and is acquired by infection from the urine of rats.
1889Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 July 11/1 (heading) Notes on a case of Weil's disease. 1934[see leptospirosis]. 1961R. D. Baker Essent. Path. ix. 200 The mortality of Weil's disease (spirochetal jaundice), the common leptospirosis of man, is about 10 per cent. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xii. 276 He looked thin, wrinkled and yellow... ‘What is Weil's disease, Luke?’.. ‘Oh, it's just some sort of jaundice most cutters get sooner or later. The cane rats carry it.’ |