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Definition of Defervescences
1. defervescence [n] - See also: defervescence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defervescences
Literary usage of Defervescences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Etiology and Pathology of Typhus: Being the Main Report of the Typhus by Simeon Burt Wolbach, John Launcelot. Todd, Francis Winslow Palfrey (1922)
"Error in histories may account for some of these variations, but in general the
early defervescences occurred in mild cases, particularly in younger ..."
2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"In an occasional patient this process continues with exacerbations and defervescences
over a long period without healing and without further progression; ..."
3. On the Temperature in Diseases: A Manual of Medical Thermometry by Carl August Wunderlich (1871)
"These defervescences are sometimes really favorable, and in such cases sometimes
show that the effect of a complication has ceased. ..."
4. Lectures on Fevers by Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1877)
"... a short and intense stationary period, and critical defervescences constituting
the paroxysms, with a perfectly normal temperature in the interval. ..."
5. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Seguin (1876)
"Relapsing fever presents the type of these rapid defervescences of 5°—6° C.=9°—10.8°
F.; such excursus happens at the close of the first attack, ..."
6. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Séguin (1876)
"... of accumulating heat is indicated when the circulation is impeded, or just
stopped, in embolism, certain forms of apoplexy,defervescences with collapse, ..."
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