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  • Word comparison: hypothermia vs. hyperthermia

hypothermia vs. hyperthermia

noun

  1. Pathology.,  subnormal body temperature.

  2. Medicine/Medical.,  the artificial reduction of body temperature to slow metabolic processes, as for facilitating heart surgery.

noun

  1. Pathology.,  abnormally high fever.

  2. Medicine/Medical.,  treatment of disease by the induction of fever, as by the injection of foreign protein or the application of heat.