| 单词 | seven day disease |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseven day disease seven day disease n. (also †seven days disease, †seven days' disease) Medicine (now historical) tetanus occurring in a newborn child (neonatal tetanus), which typically results from infection of the stump of the umbilical cord at birth and produces symptoms within five to ten days. [After Spanish mal de Siete-dias (1772 or earlier).] Neonatal tetanus has also been called, independently, eight-day sickness (in Scotland) and nine-day fits (in Ireland). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > tetanus tetanusa1398 shotec1440 opisthotonos1582 emprosthotonos1585 jaw-fallen1631 tetanism1681 trismus1684 locked jaw1754 lockjaw1768 pleurothotonos1783 seven day disease1789 orthotonos1869 pleurotonus1899 1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) I. 338 Having escaped the seven-days-disease, they thrive well until the third or fourth month. 1884 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 87 85 It is called there [sc. the West Indies], and in South America, seven days' disease. 1947 C. A. Mettler Hist. of Med. 746/1 It is obvious that tetanus neonatorum was known locally as ‘seven-day disease’. 2009 Americas 66 73 Brazilians and the Portuguese called neonatal tetanus the ‘Seven Day Disease’ (mal de sete dias). < as lemmas |
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