fever therapy


nounMedicine/Medical.
  1. therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.

Origin of fever therapy

1
First recorded in 1920–25

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British Dictionary definitions for fever therapy

fever therapy

noun
  1. a former method of treating disease by raising the body temperature: Compare cryotherapy

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