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Definition of fever

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Fever (n.) A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever..

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Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..

Feverish :: Feverish (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish..

Parch :: Parch (v. t.) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever..

Tertian :: Tertian (a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever..

Hyperpyrexia :: Hyperpyrexia (n.) A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease..

Incipient :: Incipient (a.) Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day..

Burn :: Burn (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever..

Pyretology :: Pyretology (n.) A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers.

Pyrethrin :: Pyrethrin (n.) A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor..

Malaria :: Malaria (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma..

Septicaemia :: Septicaemia (n.) A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs..

Feverwort :: Feverwort (n.) See Fever root, under Fever..

Anticausotic :: Anticausotic (n.) A remedy for such a fever.

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth..

Fevery :: Fevery (a.) Feverish.

Urobilin :: Urobilin (n.) A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome..

Induce :: Induce (v. t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure..

Precursory :: Precursory (a.) Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever..

Antipyrine :: Antipyrine (n.) An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever..

Febricitate :: Febricitate (v. i.) To have a fever.