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UK
/paɪɹˈɛksiə/
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NOUN
- a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
How To Use pyrexia In A Sentence
- If, however, organic disease can be excluded, and if the pyrexia is the only circumstance which prevents the decision that the child is well and should be treated as well, then the thermometer may be overruled and the pyrexia neglected. The Nervous Child
- Consequently, to control the pyrexia became the leading object of treatment; and whatever would do this promptly, and at the same time allay pain and promote rest, found favor at the bedside of the patient. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
- Consequently their exhibition was wholly empirical, and the one that subdued the pyrexia most promptly was given the preference. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
- In all lighter cases, it is sufficient to give a drop of Apis 3, morning and evening, during the apyrexia, and to continue this treatment until the attacks cease; very often no other paroxysm sets in after the first dose; there are scarcely ever more than two or three paroxysms. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
- Heat exhaustion typically is associated with nonspecific signs and symptoms and mild pyrexia.
- On the twenty-seventh, had a copious sweat, apyrexia; the deafness left her; the pain of her feet partly remained; in other respects had a complete crisis. Of The Epidemics
- The term hyperpyrexia is used when the temperature shows a tendency to remain at Philosophy of Osteopathy
- No one, however, undertook to first ascertain by strictly scientific appliances the actual pathological processes causing the pyrexia in each form of disease, or even to determine whether in any given case the increased heat was the result of increased heat production, or diminished heat dissipation. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
- On examination she was apyrexial, had splinter haemorrhages on two fingernails, and had a raised jugular venous pressure.
- In Perth, maternal pyrexia and preceding viral illness were both importantly associated with encephalopathy.