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pyrexia

[ pahy-rek-see-uh ]

noun

Pathology.
  1. feverish condition.


pyrexia

/ ±è²¹ÉªËˆ°ùÉ›°ì²õɪə /

noun

  1. a technical name for fever
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ±è²âˈ°ù±ð³æ¾±²¹±ô, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è²â·°ù±ð³æi·²¹±ô ±è²â·°ù±ð³æi³¦ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pyrexia1

1760–70; < New Latin < Greek ±èý°ù±ð³æ ( is ) feverishness + -ia -ia
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pyrexia1

C18: from New Latin, from Greek purexis, from puressein to be feverish, from pur fire
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Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.

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The pulse is often full, hard, and bounding; the headache throbbing or darting in character; the tendency to somnolence increases, or gives place to delirium; and the pyrexia is more marked.

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The superficial appearance of pyrexia is sometimes given by a local vaso-motor paralysis, which makes the neuralgic part, after a long bout of pain, hot and red; but of general pyrexia there is nothing.

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It was accompanied by pyrexia, gastro-enteritis, deep-seated pains in limbs and body, and burning and pricking of the skin.

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Caroline DeS. had short periods of marked pyrexia in the first and seventh months of her long psychosis.

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