pyrexia

[pahy-rek-see-uh]

noun

Pathology.

1. fever.

2. feverish condition.

pyrexia

/ paɪˈrɛksɪə /

noun

1. a technical name for fever

Other Word Forms

• pyrexial adjective
• pyrexic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pyrexia¹

1760–70; < New Latin < Greek pýrex ( is ) feverishness + -ia -ia

Word History and Origins

Origin of pyrexia¹

C18: from New Latin, from Greek purexis, from puressein to be feverish, from pur fire

Example Sentences

Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.

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During the pyrexia the face is flushed and the eyes injected, but the redness is more vivid and the countenance more animated than in either typhoid or yellow fever.

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The superficial appearance of pyrexia is sometimes given by a local vaso-motor paralysis, which makes the neuralgic part, after a long bout of pain, hot and red; but of general pyrexia there is nothing.

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It was accompanied by pyrexia, gastro-enteritis, deep-seated pains in limbs and body, and burning and pricking of the skin.

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Caroline DeS. had short periods of marked pyrexia in the first and seventh months of her long psychosis.

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Related Words

• climate 
• cold 
• condition 
• heat 
• warmth