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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Trichinosis :: Trichinosis (n.) The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal..
Typhomania :: Typhomania (n.) A low delirium common in typhus fever.
Canker Rash :: Canker rash () A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled..
Feverish :: Feverish (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish..
Anabatic :: Anabatic (a.) Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever..
Fevered :: Fevered (imp. & p. p.) of Feve.
Apyretic :: Apyretic (a.) Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.
Enfever :: Enfever (v. t.) To excite fever in.
Heat :: Heat (v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
Hyperpyrexia :: Hyperpyrexia (n.) A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease..
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever..
Bleed :: Bleed (v. i.) To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers..
Feverous :: Feverous (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse..
Vomito :: Vomito (n.) The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit..
Quinsy :: Quinsy (n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey..
Chrysanthemum :: Chrysanthemum (n.) A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy..
Miliary :: Miliary (a.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever..
Fur :: Fur (n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
Quintan :: Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever..
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