The Sanskrit term Śleṣmajvara can be transliterated into English as Slesmajvara or Shleshmajvara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Indian Journal of History of Science: Jvaranirnaya: a rare monograph on diagnosis of fevers from the pre-colonial era

Śleṣmajvara (श्लेष्मज्वर) refers to “fever due to Kapha predominance”, according to the Jvaranirṇaya: an Ayurvedic manuscript dealing exclusively with types of jvara (fevers) written by Sri Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita in the 16th century CE.—The description of types of pacifications (upaśaya) is explained with examples. [...] Upaśaya is explained with the details of medicines (bheṣaja), diet (āhāra) and lifestyle modification (vihāra). These are explained with examples of diseases like rhinitis, diarrhoea, fever due to pitta predominance, psychosis, fever due to Kapha predominance (śleṣmajvara), burns, rheumatic type of fever, fever with predominance of coldness.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śleṣmajvara (श्लेष्मज्वर):—[=śleṣma-jvara] [from śleṣma > śliṣ] m. a fever caused by phlegm, [Catalogue(s)]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Ślēṣmajvara (ಶ್ಲೇಷ್ಮಜ್ವರ):—[noun] a fever caused by phlegm.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Shleshma, Jvara.

Starts with: Shleshmajvaranidana.

Ends with: Vatashleshmajvara.

Full-text: Shleshmajvaranidana, Vatashleshmajvara, Shleshman.

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