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fever

noun as in state of high temperature or agitation

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When you get a fever, your heart rate tends to increase, even before you notice other symptoms, so it can act as an early warning system.

Yellow fever, a mosquito-borne hemorrhagic disease that is common in South America and sub-Saharan Africa, annually infects about 200,000 people and causes an estimated 30,000 deaths.

The two cats that died were among four that had developed severe symptoms, such as jaundice and high fever.

A high dose of the vaccine produced severe side effects such as fever in 9 percent of volunteers, but a lower dose produced a severe side effect in only 1 percent of people.

It can scan people coming into an area to see if they have a fever.

Besides, victory fever had spread like wildfire throughout the Allied armies.

The sets—which, really, were a feat of design and direction—appeared to be remnants of a Lewis Carroll fever dream.

Future lives, careers and attitudes were being determined in this lightly regulated fever.

Spirits in Stanleyville were high, and a local 19-year-old was emboldened by independence fever.

Take Too Many Cooks: a fever dream of a segment that aired at 4:00am earlier this week.

Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.

Père Bracasse was ill, suffering from rheumatism, bronchitis, fever and corns.

When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.

If the fever ends by crisis, the crisis is accompanied by a rapid and striking increase.

The spirillum of relapsing fever can be identified by the method for the malarial parasite in fresh blood.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fever, such as: delirium, frenzy, turmoil, ecstasy, excitement, and ferment.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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