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Definition of Pyrectic
1. Adjective. Having or causing fever.
2. Noun. Any substance that can cause a rise in body temperature.
Definition of Pyrectic
1. Noun. (medicine) any substance that produces fever, or a rise in body temperature. ¹
2. Adjective. Producing fever or a rise in body temperature. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrectic
Literary usage of Pyrectic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of medicine by Samuel Henry Dickson (1859)
"Croup is essentially pyrectic. The symptoms of local disorder, the change in the
voice, cough, etc., may either precede or follow, ..."
2. The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal (1872)
"of the main facts of the pyrectic state, competent to guide practice, not so much
in the adoption of new remedies as in a more rational use of some already ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"They ought to be avoided in every pyrectic state attended with much heat.
Nevertheless, there are circumstances in which they may be useful, especially in ..."
4. The study of medicine by John Mason Good (1825)
"pyrectic TO- JQ the pyrectic variety, therefore, the fever Is found to * Jackson,
Hist, and Cure of Fever, Endemic and Contagious, But:. Ch. TIIL p. ..."
5. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1841)
"... ammonia, and carbonic acid gas : none of which, separate or combined, ever
produce a pyrectic habit, even where greatly evolved in chemical processes. ..."
6. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal by Kappa Lambda Association of the United States (1827)
"ID about twelve or fourteen days after delivery, the patient complains of pain
in the groin of one side, accompanied.with the general train of pyrectic ..."
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