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- Word comparison: hypothermia vs. hyperthermia
hypothermia vs. hyperthermia
noun
Pathology., subnormal body temperature.
Medicine/Medical., the artificial reduction of body temperature to slow metabolic processes, as for facilitating heart surgery.
noun
Pathology., abnormally high fever.
Medicine/Medical., treatment of disease by the induction of fever, as by the injection of foreign protein or the application of heat.