pyrexia
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Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2016
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
Occasionally this perisplenitis persists, and in conjunction with the inflammatory changes in the substance of the spleen maintains an irregular fever after the specific pyrexia has run its course.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
If it be attended with strong pulse, it is termed febris sensitiva irritata, or pyrexia, or inflammation; if with a weak pulse, it is termed febris sensitiva inirritata, or typhus gravior, or malignant fever.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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