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fastigium

American  
[fa-stij-ee-uhm] / fæˈstɪdʒ i əm /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

plural

fastigiums, fastigia
  1. the highest point of a fever or disease; the period of greatest development of an infection.


Etymology

Origin of fastigium

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1670–80

Example Sentences

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F litteram imum labium superis imprimentibus dentibus, reflexa ad palati fastigium lingua, leni spiramine proferemus.

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen

Tibi debetur ruina proterui proditoris illius, quondam publici hostis nostri, qui regni fastigium quod mihi et de genere meo propagatis iure debetur hereditario, tam impudenter quam imprudenter, contra leges et ius gentium usurpare moliebatur.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

It was said of old, "ὁτι scientiæ fundamentum, διὁτι fastigium."

From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles

Claudianus certe istud fastigium non attingit, & quod in Maroniana dictione, in illa periodorum ac numerorum varietate præclarum putamus, vix est, ut ejus vel levem umbram ostentet.

From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by Benson, William

According to the researches of Thomas, Squire, and Wunderlich, as abstracted by Seguin, the fever of the eruptive period is divided into a moderately febrile stage and the fastigium or acme.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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