Bornholm disease
English
editEtymology
editBecause early cases were recorded on the island of Bornholm.
Noun
editBornholm disease (uncountable)
- (medicine) An infectious viral disease characterised by fever and chest pain.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 88:
- 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.