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Definition of Defervesce
1. Verb. Experience an abatement of a fever.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defervesce
Literary usage of Defervesce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Robert E. Hermann, Avram M. Cooperman (1921)
"The patient ran a very severe course of pneumonia and did not properly defervesce.
On the tenth day he developed signs of fluid in the left chest; ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
""Cool" is chiefly used with "off" or "doum." 8. See DEPRESS. cool, vil refrigerate,
colden (rare); spec. shiver, freeze, defervesce (rare). cooling, ..."
3. Prometheus by Aeschylus (1905)
"The wrath of both has had time to defervesce. The shackles have already fallen
from the other Titans; the conflicts of olden days are forgotten. ..."
4. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1894)
"In case of a failure to defervesce, we look first for pleuritic effusion, which
we have found quite constant, especially in the form ot empyema. ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"... the temperature in remittent malarial fever shows at the end of each week a
well-marked disposition to defervesce abruptly at the end of each week but ..."
6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1900)
"Leave them alone, and they will defervesce. But symptomatic treatment may be
indicated and should not be denied them. For group 2, where the prognosis is ..."
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