Weiln.
/vʌɪl/, /wiːl/, U.S. /vaɪl/, /waɪl/ Pathology.
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.
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endemic syphilis1865
Oroya fever1873
verruga1873
Weil's disease1889
undulant fever1896
pasteurellosis1902
microbism1904
spirillosis1904
spirochaetosis1906
necrobacillosis1907
melioidosis1921
Reiter's disease1922
rickettsiosis1925
leptospirosis1926
Carrion's disease1927
treponematosis1927
bartonellosis1928
brucellosis1930
mycobacteriosis1938
listerellosis1939
listeriosis1941
shigellosis1944
Reiter's syndrome1947
Shigella dysentery1963
pigbel1966
mud fever1969
Lyme arthritis1976
toxic shock syndrome1978
legionellosis1979
TSS1980
1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 July 11/1 (heading) Notes on a case of Weil's disease.
1934 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 July 10/1 Weil's disease (spirochaetal jaundice, infective jaundice, leptospirosis) has been recognized in many different countries.
1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. ix. 200 The mortality of Weil's disease (spirochetal jaundice), the common leptospirosis of man, is about 10 per cent.
1977 C. 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.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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