Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Abnormally high fever.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a high degree of pyrexia or fever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.
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- noun medicine An excessive and unusual elevation of set body temperature greater than or equal to 41°C (105.8°F), or extremely high fever.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extremely high fever (especially in children)
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Examples
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The term hyperpyrexia is used when the temperature shows a tendency to remain at
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A patient-consent form warning of hyperpyrexia after a procedure, for example, might be translated to an abnormally high fever.
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If the atmosphere is as warm or warmer than the skin during times of high humidity, the blood is brought to the surface of our body and it cannot lose its heat, resulting in a condition called hyperpyrexia.
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OTHER NAMES: Heat hyperpyrexia, sunstroke, thermic fever.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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OTHER NAMES: High temperature, hyperpyrexia, hyperthermia.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Cardiovascular collapse, hyperpyrexia, and sudden death have been reported in such patients.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Stuporous patients are unable to eat or drink and, if untreated,, can develop severe dehydration, hemoconcentration, hyperpyrexia, ketosis, and eventually cardiovascular collapse and death.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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I believe that it has also been fashionable in the so called cases of hyperpyrexia to immerse the patient in a bath varying in temperature from 60° to 98° Fahr.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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Later, signs of increased intra-cranial tension develop: unconsciousness deepening into coma, paralysis of ocular muscles, rapid pulse, Cheyne-Stokes respiration, and sometimes hyperpyrexia.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Sometimes it rises as high as 106° or 108° F. -- _cerebral hyperpyrexia_
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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