fièvre |
1. n-f. fever | |
pernicieuse |
1. adj. feminine singular of pernicieux | |
pernicieux |
1. adj. (medicine, rare) insidious (having a slow and discreet, but dangerous evolution) | |
anémie pernicieuse - pernicious anemia, or Biermer's anemia, a form of megaloblastic anemia due to vitamin B12 deficiency | |
fièvre pernicieuse - pernicious fever (old term for neuro-malaria, the most serious form of malaria fever) | |
* 1879, Jules Verne, L'Île mystérieuse, Part 3, Chapter 10, translated by Stephen William White: | |
2. adj. (literary) morally harmful; pernicious | |
3. adj. (dated) literally harmful or dangerous, usually of animals or persons | |