Definition of fever

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Fever (n.) Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever..

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Resolution :: Resolution (n.) A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like..
Febrifugal :: Febrifugal (a.) Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.
Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever..
Synocil :: Synochus (n.) A continuous fever.
Feverish :: Feverish (a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world..
Stiacciato :: Sthenic (a.) Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever..
Chill :: Chill (n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever..
Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
Mayweed :: Mayweed (n.) The feverfew.
Feverwort :: Feverwort (n.) See Fever root, under Fever..
Peyer''s Glands :: Peyer's glands () Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease..
Adynamia :: Adynamia (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever..
Fevery :: Fevery (a.) Feverish.
Dengue :: Dengue (n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal..
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever..
Spiring :: Spirillum (n.) A genus of common motile microorganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. One species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.
Antipyrine :: Antipyrine (n.) An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever..
Pyrethrin :: Pyrethrin (n.) A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor..
Anticausotic :: Anticausotic (a.) Good against an inflammatory fever.
Fever :: Fever (v. t.) To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip..
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