apyrexia

/ ˌæpaɪˈrɛksɪə /

noun

1. absence of fever

Derived Forms

• ˌapyˈretic, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of apyrexia¹

C19: from a- ¹+ Greek puretos fever

Example Sentences

While the lowest angles of the fever curve approximate the normal body heat more or less closely, they never decline to a standard of apyrexia.

From Project Gutenberg

The abrupt commencement of the former, the high fever, lasting for from five to seven days only, and terminating by crisis with a profuse sweat, and the period of complete apyrexia of a week's duration, followed by the relapse in which the temperature rises even higher than in the primary paroxysm, and which also terminates by crisis, form a chain of symptoms which has no counterpart in the latter.

From Project Gutenberg

There was apyrexia on the day the attack was due, and this did not return again.

From Project Gutenberg

In all lighter cases, it is sufficient to give a drop of Apis 3, morning and evening, during the apyrexia, and to continue this treatment until the attacks cease; very often no other paroxysm sets in after the first dose; there are scarcely ever more than two or three paroxysms.

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