sweating sickness

English Thesaurus

1. epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality (noun.state)

hypernym	:	infectious disease,
definition	:	a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact (noun.state)

2. a disease of cattle (especially calves) (noun.state)

hypernym	:	animal disease,
definition	:	a disease that typically does not affect human beings (noun.state)