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pyrexia
[ pahy-rek-see-uh ]
pyrexia
/ 貹ɪˈɛɪə /
noun
- a technical name for fever
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Derived Forms
- ˈ澱, adjective
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Other Word Forms
- ·i· ·i adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pyrexia1
C18: from New Latin, from Greek purexis, from puressein to be feverish, from pur fire
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Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.
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It is the blood of a phlegmasia rather than of a pyrexia.
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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.
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It was accompanied by pyrexia, gastro-enteritis, deep-seated pains in limbs and body, and burning and pricking of the skin.
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Caroline DeS. had short periods of marked pyrexia in the first and seventh months of her long psychosis.
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