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Inirritative :: Inirritative (a.) Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever..

Alexipyretic :: Alexipyretic (a.) Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile.

Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..

Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..

Malignancy :: Malignancy (n.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever..

Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever..

Dengue :: Dengue (n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal..

Induce :: Induce (v. t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure..

Fiery :: Fiery (a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish..

Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off..

Acetanilide :: Acetanilide (n.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine..

Febrifuge :: Febrifuge (n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.

Feverwort :: Feverwort (n.) See Fever root, under Fever..

Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever..

Pyrogenic :: Pyrogenic (a.) Producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever..

Fur :: Fur (n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.

Antipyresis :: Antipyresis (n.) The condition or state of being free from fever.

Pyrethrin :: Pyrethrin (n.) A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor..

Tertian :: Tertian (a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever..

Calenture :: Calenture (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it..

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