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Definition of Pyrogens
1. pyrogen [n] - See also: pyrogen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrogens
Literary usage of Pyrogens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Chemistry: Illustrated by Simple Experiments by Julius Adolph Stöckhardt, Charles Henry Peirce (1854)
"RETROSPECT OF THE pyrogens (SULPHUR AND PHOSPHORUS;. 1. Simple bodies combine
only with simple bodies, compound only with compound bodies. 2. ..."
2. The Principles of Chemistry by Julius Adolph Stöckhardt (1852)
"Phosphorus and sulphur are especially characterized by their great inflammability ;
hence they may be called pyrogens, or fire-generators. ..."
3. A Class-book of Chemistry: In which the Latest Facts and Principles of the by Edward Livingston Youmans (1866)
"THE pyrogens Oil FIRE PRODUCERS. § I Sulphur and its Compounds. i 642. The elements
of this group, Sulphur, Selenium, Tellurium, and Phosphorus, ..."
4. A Class-book of Chemistry by Edward Livingston Youmans (1863)
"THE pyrogens OR FIRE PRODUCERS. § I Sulphur and its Compounds. 642. The elements
of this group, Sulphur, Selenium, Tellurium, and Phosphorus, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"... by stimulation of the hypothalamic tern- re control center, rather than
indirectly ;h leukocyte endogenous pyrogen (1). x>rted for other pyrogens (2-4), ..."
6. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"Several observers (Grant, 1950; Grant and Whalen, 1953) have noted a double 'peak'
temperature effect with increasing doses of bacterial pyrogens in man and ..."
7. A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical by J. Stephen Catlett (1987)
"... Seibert spent her professional life researching the chemistry and immunology
of tuberculosis and cancer, as well as doing pioneering work on pyrogens. ..."
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