Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, heat; inflammation; fever: a word formerly used in the designation of various diseases, especially those exhibiting inflammation and fever, as cauma pleuritis, pleurisy; cauma podagricum, gout; but also
cauma hæmorrhagicum , so-called active hemorrhage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Great heat, as of the body in fever.
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- noun Great
heat , as of the body infever .
Etymologies
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From Latin cauma ("heat"), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kauma, "heat, especially of the sun").
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