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单词 saint anthony's fire
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
Saint′ Anthony's fire, [Pathol.](formerly)
  1. Pathologyany of certain skin conditions that are of an inflammatory or gangrenous nature, as erysipelas, hospital gangrene, or ergotism.
  • 1570–80

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Saint Anthony's fire n
usually abbreviated to: St Anthony's fire
  1. another name for ergotism, erysipelas
Etymology: 16th Century: so named because praying to St Anthony was believed to effect a cure
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