Definition of Pyretic

1. Adjective. Causing fever.

Antonyms: Antipyretic

Definition of Pyretic

1. a. Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.

Definition of Pyretic

1. Adjective. Caused by, pertaining to or resulting in fever. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pyretic

1. pertaining to fever [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyretic

pyree
pyrena
pyrene
pyrenes
pyrenic
pyrenoid
pyrenoids
pyres
pyrethrin
pyrethrine
pyrethrins
pyrethroid
pyrethroids
pyrethrum
pyrethrums
pyretic (current term)
pyretology
pyretotherapy
pyrexes
pyrexia
pyrexial
pyrexias
pyrexic
pyrgom
pyrheliometer
pyrheliometers
pyrheliometric
pyrheliometry
pyribenzoxim
pyribole

Literary usage of Pyretic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1868)
"The defendant's case was that the plaintiff was not entitled to appropriate, and, as it were, claim a patent right in the terni " pyretic salts," which was ..."

2. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Seguin (1876)
"pyretic MEDICATION. A pyretic treatment consists either in the means of adding heat to that of the body, of inciting the inward generation of heat, ..."

3. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Séguin (1876)
"pyretic MEDICATION. A pyretic treatment consists either in the means of ... (//) Food is as much a part of the pyretic medication as fasting is of the ..."

4. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1880)
"The pyretic saline would clearly have fallen within the item "waters " as an artificial mineral water impregnated with carbonic acid gas. ..."

5. History of Homoeopathy: Its Origin, Its Conflicts, with an Appendix on the by Wilhelm Ameke, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1885)
"... among the allopaths meet and congratulate themselves on the " great advance " made in therapeutics by the introduction of the anti-pyretic treatment, ..."

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