pyrexia

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Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2016

The superficial appearance of pyrexia is sometimes given by a local vaso-motor paralysis, which makes the neuralgic part, after a long bout of pain, hot and red; but of general pyrexia there is nothing.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

Caroline DeS. had short periods of marked pyrexia in the first and seventh months of her long psychosis.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)

Apyretic, a-pir-et′ik, adj. without pyrexia or fever, especially of those days in which the intermission of fevers occurs in agues—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The pulse is often full, hard, and bounding; the headache throbbing or darting in character; the tendency to somnolence increases, or gives place to delirium; and the pyrexia is more marked.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various