febris

[feb-ris]

noun

plural

febres 

1. (in prescriptions) fever.

Word History and Origins

Origin of febris¹

From Latin

Example Sentences

Febris catarrhalis, Defluxio catarrhalis epidemicus, Rheuma epidemicus are terms which no longer retain the place given them in the literature of influenza by the older medical authorities.

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Jaccoud also lays much stress upon this point, saying that the early administration of meat always gives rise to fever, to which, from its cause, he gives the name of febris carnis.

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Sydenham5 also described a fever in which the prominent symptoms were diarrhoea, vomiting, delirium, a tendency to coma, and epistaxis, and which was distinguishable from the febris pestilens by the absence of a petechial eruption.

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This fever differs entirely from the febris flava—the typhus icteroides of Sauvages.

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Lovelier beyond comparison than Rome's loveliest spots, it was small wonder that to fill their Augustan lungs with the freshness of the Campagna, the idle were borne out of the contained airs of the city, which were of such seasonal peculiarities that temples in propitiation of Mephitis and the goddess Febris had been erected.

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