Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
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Examples
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In those, who have hectic fever, or the febricula, or nocturnal fever of debility, the morning sweats are owing to the decline of the fever-fit, as explained in Sect.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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If an excess of perspiration is induced by warm or stimulant clothing, as by wearing flannel in contact with the skin in the summer months, a perpetual febricula is excited, both by the preventing the access of cool air to the skin, and by perpetually goading it by the numerous and hard points of the ends of the wool; which when applied to the tender skins of young children, frequently produce the red gum, as it is called; and in grown people, either an erysipelas, or a miliary eruption, attended with fever.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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"The tissue waste is marked in proportion to the severity and duration of the febrile phenomena, being slight or (nil) in febricula, and excessive in typhoid fever.
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