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Definition of Pyrexic
1. pyrexia [adj] - See also: pyrexia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrexic
Literary usage of Pyrexic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"... pyrexic disturbance most favourably. (6.) Gastro-intestinal Functions.—The
functions of stomach and bowel are rendered easier and more effective. ..."
2. Birmingham Medical Review (1892)
"The following case is a good example of cerebral irritability, the result of
exhaustion from acute (pyrexic) disease : —A boy, aged 16, was admitted to the ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"... but at no time were there any pyrexic symptoms nor complications. He arose
one morning feeling as well us usual, and after washing his face and combing ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1905)
"... it produces a pyrexic reaction, hut its toxic action is slight. (2) Intra-cellular
toxins, AT (acido-toxines), abstracted from the bodies of tubercle ..."
5. A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics by Richard Quain, Frederick Thomas Roberts, John Mitchell Bruce, Samuel Treat Armstrong (1894)
"Dr. Charles says : ' Drowsiness may have passed into coma ; the temperature verges
on the hyper- pyrexic ; the heart fails, and the lungs are œdematous ..."
6. A System of Practical Medicine by William Pepper, Louis Starr (1886)
"... and distribution of tinea versicolor; the small roundish, confluent pinkish
or reddish patches, precursory pyrexic symptoms, the epidemic nature, ..."
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