‖ siriasis Path.
(sɪˈraɪəsɪs)
[a. L. sīriāsis, a. Gr. σειρίᾱσις, f. σειριᾶν to be hot and scorching.]
A disease affecting children, characterized by inflammation of the brain and membranes, and burning fever. Cf. sideration 3.
| 1601 Holland Pliny II. 397 Yong infants many times be tormented with an vnnaturall heat and burning of their head, called Siriasis. 1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Sirricasis [sic], an Inflammation, or rather great Heat of the Brain and its Membranes, occasion'd by the heat of the Sun. 1879 Lewis & Short Lat. Dict. 1710/3. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 203 The very definite and probably specific disease described under the name siriasis. |