pyrexia
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- pyrexial adjective
- pyrexic adjective
Etymology
Origin of pyrexia
1760–70; < New Latin < Greek pýrex ( is ) feverishness + -ia -ia
Vocabulary lists containing pyrexia
Example Sentences
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Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2016
It was frequently given so as to maintain decided drowsiness throughout the pyrexia.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The mortality, the anatomical lesions, the course of the pyrexia, the leading clinical symptoms, are all widely distinct in the two affections; and, finally, no spirillum has been found in the blood in yellow fever.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Apyretic, a-pir-et′ik, adj. without pyrexia or fever, especially of those days in which the intermission of fevers occurs in agues—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Consequently their exhibition was wholly empirical, and the one that subdued the pyrexia most promptly was given the preference.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
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