Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to pyrexia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to fever; feverish.
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- adjective obsolete of, or relating to
fevers ;feverish
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Examples
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Watery and fat, they carry with them into later childhood the infantile susceptibility to catarrhal infections of the lung, bowel, skin, etc., and they are apt to suffer, in consequence, from a succession of pyrexial attacks.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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They are distinguished from inflammatory affections by the pyrexial symptoms not being strongly marked, or marked at all -- by the puffy or bloated appearance of the face and lips -- by the slavering mouth -- the highly charged tongue -- and by the torpor of mind and body.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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