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Bornholm disease

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An infectious viral disease characterised by fever and chest pain. uncountable

    "In medical circles, the name of Bornholm is linked incongruously to a viral infection called epidemic pleurodynia, otherwise known as the ‘Devil's Grip’, the ‘Grasp of the Phantom’ or, more prosaically, Bornholm disease."

  2. 2
    an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest) wordnet

Etymology

Because early cases were recorded on the island of Bornholm.

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