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6 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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ague
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tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:malaria or some other illness with fever and chills
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Shall we go down into the crypt together?”
“‘No; for I fear for your excellency’s ague. The air there is excessively damp.’
Edith Wharton. Crucial Instances: The Duchess at Prayer (1901)
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we unshipped our goods and wintered there; for the captain falling sick of an ague, we could not leave the Cape till the end of March.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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if ever she has been taken with the fever of fancy, she will help his ague, who by a quotidian fit is converted into frenzy
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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The ague again so violent that I lay a-bed all day, and neither ate nor drank. I was ready to perish for thirst; but so weak, I had not strength to stand up, or to get myself any water to drink.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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Pierre noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an ague.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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Heathcliff, having stared his son into an ague of confusion, uttered a scornful laugh.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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