Charcot's fever

English

Noun

Charcot's fever (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A recurrent fever associated with gallstones and jaundice.

   Synonyms: Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever

   • 1907, Hobart Amory Hare, Practical Diagnosis: The Use of Symptoms and Physical Signs in the Diagnosis of Disease:

     Again, acute ulcerative endocarditis and purulent phlebitis may cause similar symptoms, as may also hepatic abscess, impaction of gallstones, with suppurative cholangitis, causing the so-called Charcot's fever (see below).

Hypernyms

• fever