ESTIVAL
\ˈɛstɪvə͡l], \ˈɛstɪvəl], \ˈɛ_s_t_ɪ_v_əl]\
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Happening in summer, belonging to summer. This epithet is given to summer diseases, so called because they reign at that season, and appear to depend on the influence exerted by it on the animal economy. In the United States, the term summer disease or complaint means disorder of the bowels; as diarrhoea, cholera morbus, &c.
By Robley Dunglison