Definition of fever

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Fever (v. t.) To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip..

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Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis..
Phlogistic :: Phlogistic (a.) Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers.
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever..
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..
Synocil :: Synochus (n.) A continuous fever.
Ataxy :: Ataxy (n.) The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.
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..
Antipyresis :: Antipyresis (n.) The condition or state of being free from fever.
Pyrethrin :: Pyrethrin (n.) A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor..
Pyrogenic :: Pyrogenic (a.) Producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever..
Fur :: Fur (n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
Febrifuge :: Febrifuge (n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
Aphthous :: Aphthous (a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthae; characterized by aphtae; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by 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.
Impetigo :: Impetigo (n.) A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation..
Refrigerant :: Refrigerant (a.) Cooling; allaying heat or fever.
Ague :: Ague (n.) An acute fever.
Fevering :: Fevering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feve.
Quintan :: Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever..
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