apyretic

[ ey-pahy-ret-ik ]

adjective

, Pathology.

1. free from fever.

Word History and Origins

Origin of apyretic¹

First recorded in 1835–45; a- ⁶ + pyretic

Example Sentences

The improvement was but brief; for about eighteen hours he lay apyretic, with cool hands and feet, and with eyes closed and mind dull but free from delirium.

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There is occasionally no distinct apyretic interval between the two attacks, but in by far the greater number of instances the relapse occurs in the second or third week, or even later, after the establishment of convalescence.

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After an apyretic period of six weeks, during which the symptoms of the amyloid visceral disease persisted, a sudden and rapidly fatal pyrexia occurred.

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But the latter disease arises exclusively from malaria, and is therefore powerfully influenced by season and locality; is not contagious; does not present anything approaching to the crisis, the apyretic interval, or the abrupt relapse of relapsing fever; presents pigmentary changes in the blood, instead of the spirillum; and lesions of the spleen and liver totally unlike those characteristic of relapsing fever; can be promptly controlled by antiperiodic doses of quinine, and therefore should have a mortality far less than that of the grave form of relapsing fever.

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When, however, the apyretic period is reached, the exudation, as a rule, disappears rapidly, so that often in the course of six weeks no trace of its existence remains.

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