Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The absence or intermission of pyrexia or fever; the interval between the paroxysms in intermittent fevers. Also apyrexy.

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  • noun (Med.) The absence or intermission of fever.

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  • noun medicine The absence or intermission of fever.

Etymologies

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a- +‎ pyrexia

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Examples

  • On the thirty-fourth, apyrexia; bowels not confined; and he again recovered his heat.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the thirty-fourth, sweated all over, apyrexia general crisis.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the twentieth, sweated all over; apyrexia, dejections bilious; aversion to food, comatose.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the third, the spasms left her; but coma, and disposition to sleep, and again awaked, started up, and could not contain herself; much incoherence; acute fever; on that night a copious sweat all over; apyrexia, slept, quite collected; had a crisis.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the sixth, a great hemorrhage from the nose; a chill, with a copious and hot sweat all over; apyrexia, had a crisis.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the twentieth, pain of the feet; deafness and delirium left her; a small hemorrhage from the nose; sweat, apyrexia.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the twentieth, sweat, apyrexia; but after the crisis he was thirsty, and the expectorations were not good.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the twenty-seventh, had a copious sweat, apyrexia; the deafness left her; the pain of her feet partly remained; in other respects had a complete crisis.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the twenty-fourth, urine copious, white, with an abundant sediment; a copious and warm sweat all over; apyrexia; the fever came to its crisis.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • In all lighter cases, it is sufficient to give a drop of Apis 3, morning and evening, during the apyrexia, and to continue this treatment until the attacks cease; very often no other paroxysm sets in after the first dose; there are scarcely ever more than two or three paroxysms.

    Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent C. W. Wolf

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