pyrexia
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- pyrexial adjective
- pyrexic adjective
Etymology
Origin of pyrexia
1760–70; < New Latin < Greek pýrex ( is ) feverishness + -ia -ia
Example Sentences
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Not a trace of wind in the humid pyrexia of mid-afternoon.
From The Guardian
After an apyretic period of six weeks, during which the symptoms of the amyloid visceral disease persisted, a sudden and rapidly fatal pyrexia occurred.
From Project Gutenberg
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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