Definition of fever

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Fever (n.) Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever..

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Pleurisy :: Pleurisy (n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity..
Low :: Low (superl.) Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever..
Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..
Ague :: Ague (n.) An acute fever.
Tabes :: Tabes (n.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms..
Wanness :: Wanness (n.) The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever..
Diary :: Diary (a.) lasting for one day; as, a diary fever..
Barberry :: Barberry (n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root..
Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever..
Scarlatina :: Scarlatina (n.) Scarlet fever.
Parch :: Parch (v. t.) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever..
Vomito :: Vomito (n.) The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit..
Feverous :: Feverous (a.) Affected with fever or ague; feverish.
Typhomalarial :: Typhomalarial (a.) Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever..
Epidemical :: Epidemical (a.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic..
Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever..
Mayweed :: Mayweed (n.) The feverfew.
Feverously :: Feverously (adv.) Feverishly.
Feverish :: Feverish (a.) Hot; sultry.
Gelsemium :: Gelsemium (n.) The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc..
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