ˈague-ˌcake
An enlargement of the spleen or liver caused by ague.
| 1641 Milton Ch. Discip. ii. (1851) 42 A mere ague-cake coagulated of a certaine Fever they have, presaging their time to be but short. 1801 E. Darwin Zoon. II. 47 The liver, spleen, or pancreas; one or more of which are frequently so enlarged in the autumnal intermittents as to be perceptible to the touch externally, and are called by the vulgar ague-cakes. |