algid

If the attack has been very severe, and particularly if the algid stage has been prolonged, fever of a low type is apt to occur, and indeed may terminate fatally.

Harry felt an algid chill creep over him.

For, of all the miracles!—I could not doubt—an actual aroma like peach-blossom was in the algid air about me!

Equally ineffectual are other means used for communicating heat to the algid body and thereby reviving its functions.

Yet the efficacy of this powerful agency is by no means comparable to that which it produces in the algid forms of malarial fever.