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Definition of Pyrexia
1. Noun. A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection.
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Specialized synonyms: Hyperpyrexia
Derivative terms: Feverous, Feverish, Feverish, Pyrectic
Definition of Pyrexia
1. n. The febrile condition.
Definition of Pyrexia
1. Noun. (medicine) fever ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pyrexia
1. fever [n -S] : PYREXIAL, PYREXIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrexia
Literary usage of Pyrexia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutic Gazette (1894)
"Many functional disorders in which the functions of the cortex were perverted
showed pyrexia. Such were epilepsy, delirium tremens, and chorea, ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"case illustrating the non-dependence of rheumatic pyrexia upon the joint affection
is given by Professor 0. Kahler. The patient, a girl thirteen years of ..."
3. Practical Uranalysis and Urinary Diagnosis: A Manual for the Use of by Charles Wesley Purdy (1894)
"SIMPLE pyrexia. CERTAIN changes in the character of the urine in pyrexia are
sufficiently constant to merit the term " pyrexial urine " often employed. ..."
4. The Theory and practice of medicine by Frederick Thomas Roberts (1884)
"CHAPTER I. FEVER, OR pyrexia. The phenomena characteristic of fever may be observed
in connection with two distinct classes of cases: First, they may follow ..."
5. An Introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1878)
"CHAPTER X. TISSUE-CHANGES IN pyrexia. IT is proposed in the present chapter to
allude very briefly to those alterations in the tissues which are met ..."
6. A Treatise on gout by Dyce Duckworth (1889)
"pyrexia in Acute Gout.—I have endeavoured to illustrate the type of pyretic ...
The pyrexia is best observed in cases which occur while the patients are in ..."
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