Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Fever.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A higher bodily temperature than is normal; fever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The febrile condition.
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- noun medicine
fever
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- noun a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
Etymologies
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Examples
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If, however, organic disease can be excluded, and if the pyrexia is the only circumstance which prevents the decision that the child is well and should be treated as well, then the thermometer may be overruled and the pyrexia neglected.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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During the next few days the animal will lose some weight and perhaps show a certain amount of pyrexia.
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If pyrexia is present, it is a serious symptom, as it is a sign of septic absorption in the bronchi, and may be the forerunner of gangrene.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The accompanying table of normal averages for the animals usually employed in bacteriological research may be of use in preventing the erroneous assumption that pyrexia is present in an animal, which merely shows its own normal temperature.
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From the middle of July until we left Gallipoli for good, our effective strength was being continually reduced by dysentery, pyrexia, and jaundice.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison
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The pyrexia may have the same periodic character as that just noted in cases of cyclic vomiting.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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Consequently their exhibition was wholly empirical, and the one that subdued the pyrexia most promptly was given the preference.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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No one, however, undertook to first ascertain by strictly scientific appliances the actual pathological processes causing the pyrexia in each form of disease, or even to determine whether in any given case the increased heat was the result of increased heat production, or diminished heat dissipation.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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Consequently, to control the pyrexia became the leading object of treatment; and whatever would do this promptly, and at the same time allay pain and promote rest, found favor at the bedside of the patient.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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Yet we all know that the pyrexia invariably returned as soon as the effects of each dose were exhausted, and in a few years the results showed that while the antipyretics served to keep down the pyrexia, and give each case the appearance of doing well, the average duration of the cases, and their mortality, were both increased.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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