defervescence

[ dee-fer-ves-uhns, def-er- ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. abatement of fever.

defervescence

/ ˌdɛfəˈvɛsəns /

noun

1. the abatement of a fever
2. the period during which this occurs

Other Words From

• defer·vescent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of defervescence¹

1715–25; < German Deferveszenz < Latin dēfervēsc ( ent- ) (stem of dēfervēscēns, present participle of dēfervēscere, equivalent to dē- de + fervēscere to begin to boil) + -ence; effervescent

Example Sentences

The roseola was usually profuse; the nerve symptoms were of marked severity, and were in inverse ratio to the temperature, consisting of violent delirium alternating with stupor; the duration of the fever was very short, defervescence usually taking place at the end of a fortnight.

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When the maximum is attained early in the disease there may be for several days, or until defervescence takes place, very little variation in the evening temperatures, but, as a general rule, they are slightly less elevated in the second than in the first week.

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Defervescence is often very rapid, the temperature falling five or six degrees in the course of twelve hours.

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The occurrence of a complication in the course of a disease will not only cause a decided rise of temperature and a modification of the temperature curve, but may also postpone defervescence beyond the usual time.

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As the attack passes its height and critical defervescence occurs, the pulse grows slower, unless great prostration has supervened; in which case it increases in rapidity, while it fails more and more in fulness and resistance.

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