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Hyperpyrexia

noun
1.
Extremely high fever (especially in children).



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"Hyperpyrexia" Quotes from Famous Books



... there a more profligate waste of a precious medicine. Even the physicians who so used it were obliged to acknowledge that it only did good in sub-acute and mild cases. I believe that it has also been fashionable in the so called cases of hyperpyrexia to immerse the patient in a bath varying in temperature from 60 to 98 Fahr. Although patients thus treated sometimes recovered, they also sometimes perished from congestion of the ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various


Words linked to "Hyperpyrexia" :   hyperthermy, febricity, hyperthermia, fever, pyrexia, febrility, feverishness


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