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Definition of Hyperthermy
1. Noun. Abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer).
Generic synonyms: Physical Condition, Physiological Condition, Physiological State
Specialized synonyms: Hyperpyrexia
Antonyms: Hypothermia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperthermy
Literary usage of Hyperthermy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1895)
"hyperthermy IN A MAN UP TO 148° F. (64.4° C.). BY A. JACOBI, MD, OF NEW YORK.
EXCESSIVE temperatures of the animal and human bodies have been studied both ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"It hovers about this hyperthermy for some days, then decreases under the influence
of medicinal agents, returns to the figure it stood at prior to the ..."
3. General Pathology: An Introduction to the Study of Medicine, Being a by Horst Oertel (1921)
"hyperthermy shows itself by lassitude, headache and oppressive sensations.
If the heat influence is not relieved respiratory dyspnea follows. ..."
4. Materia Medica: Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing for by Walter Arthur Bastedo (1913)
"It seems probable that in many cases hyperthermy or fever is a protective reaction
on the part of the body, and in these cases moderate degrees of fever ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"... that profound metabolic changes occur in the fevers of infection and that
there is some evidence that in hyperthermy produced in other ways than by ..."
6. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"At a meeting of the Association of American Physicians in 1895, Jacobi of New
York reported a case of hyperthermy reaching 148° F. This instance occurred in ..."
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